I want to start by saying I do understand what she was getting at and labelling this a venting post seems aggressive because again I can understand her point, but I think the context in which she said this confused me a little and kind of hurt.

I was telling my therapist about how bad my identity issues are, and that I genuinely have 0 connection to myself and I feel like an imposter in every single aspect of my life including my own “interests”. I told her how it’s made me have multiple panic attacks because my own opinions on everything including loved ones, political stances, etc, will just randomly change because I genuinely have no fucking idea who I am and my traits don’t feel like my own. I also told her how isolating it is and how often I switch up on friends because I feel such little connection to every single thing and myself, and that it’s made me feel suicidal, and she asked me if I ever heard of white privilege.

I am a white woman. I do strongly believe I have white privilege. I think to even be able to question and change my roles and identity in life is something I’m definitely privileged in being able to do without fear of judgement or being ridiculed, but am I wrong for feeling a little hurt that I was telling my therapist how badly and how deeply these issues impact me, and she sums it up entirely to white privilege? BPD identity issues are much deeper than that, but she also doesn’t believe in BPD. I feel wrong even questioning this, but I’m also a little hurt it was dismissed the way it was.