A Girl Named Seattle
Seattle is a character who represents my BPD.
A Girl Named Seattle is meant to share my own experience having Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) with the hope of creating solidarity and understanding among viewers. The formal elements used throughout the show echo characteristics of BPD such as the relentless repetition of thought loops, the size and intense denseness of emotions, the multimedia flux of self-identity, the attempt of enclosed, finite containment of infinite, erratic, ever-moving parts, ultimately forcing perpetual forgetfulness and compartmentalization. Finally, it takes time and effort to read through the zine in order to learn more about the main character. By doing this the viewer can find resolve in her story is representative of the constant work it takes to live inside a body that operates among the symptoms of BPD.
