A Real Affliction: BPD, Culture, and Stigma

A Real Affliction: BPD, Culture, and Stigma


Is No Longer Human about BPD—and should we even ask that question?

July 18, 2024

Can we diagnose the narrator of Osamu Dazais novel, No Longer Human, with BPD or some other diagnosis? And does it make sense to try? In this bonus summer solo episode, I give my perspective as a Japanese literature scholar and a person with BPD.Osamu D