by Cole Bankston | Aug 18, 2025 | Mental Health
Recently, I heard someone say their cat was a narcissist. This made me think about how the term narcissist might be losing some of its original meaning. Like when the word “literally” stopped meaning “literally” and started meaning “actually.” At its core,...
by Cole Bankston | Aug 14, 2025 | Mental Health
Some people avoid social situations because they’re terrified of rejection. Others avoid social situations because they think other people might be robots. These are different things. This is the world of personality disorders. Specifically, schizotypal and avoidant....
by Cole Bankston | Jun 9, 2025 | OCD
Imagine your friend tells you they have OCD. You picture a person alphabetizing their spice rackbby emotional trauma level. Then someone else says they have OCPD, and you nod like you understand, even though internally you’re thinking, “Wait, there’s...
by Cole Bankston | Jun 2, 2025 | Mental Health
If you Google “Histrionic Personality Disorder,” you’ll get a paragraph that sounds like it was written by a therapist who was mad that someone wore leopard print to a session. Histrionic comes from the word histrio, which is Latin for “actor.” Which means if you’ve...
by Cole Bankston | Apr 24, 2025 | BPD
Hi. My name isn’t important, but for the purposes of credibility, let’s pretend I’m a licensed professional with a background in mental health. When people hear “BPD,” their brains often scramble the letters and assume you’re talking about bipolar disorder. But BPD...
