On the subject of tailoring your public health campaigns to their audience, it’s worth noting that one of the major themes of the last album Taylor Swift planned a 2-year, new-style, how-we-straight-girl-today touring cycle around was “getting treatment for BPD will make you stable enough to actually appreciate those fairy tale relationships you’ve been chasing”

Still mulling over the significance that Afterglow, off Taylor Swift’s Lover, is a BPD comedown/aftercare anthem

For one that creates a striking parallel with her BPD high anthem Blank Space

For another, like, it is a song explicitly about how she accepts fault, she is to blame for drama, it was gratuitous, and she is sorry; and we haven’t talked enough about how this is an explicit rejection of her whole previous Taylor Swift™ schtick

What are the precedents? Stay Stay Stay she kind of acknowledges she’s creating gratuitous drama, but in the context of appreciating someone literally donning armor to endure her. Back to December she kind of accepts blame for a relationship failure, but in the context of interpreting a months-ago ex as an epic, continuing drama, which is maybe not the best BPD self-awareness