Okay I don’t normally comment on Love Island threads but I can’t help myself here!
I’ve been watching since episode 1 and have just caught up on last nights episode.
I’m a clinical psychologist.
Whatever happened to be kind? I appreciate I haven’t gone through all 29 pages of this thread, but all I can see so far is abuse to Faye. Before anyone assumes anything, I am NOT condoning Faye’s behaviour which, by the way, was technically domestic abuse.
Faye is emotionally unstable. In fact she shows features of Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder or BPD. She has very clearly been through some trauma in her life from men; be that an abusive ex partner or unhelpful attachment styles from her childhood and parenting, or both.
The Love Island producers exploited her last night. In fact they tried to exploit most islanders with the “movie” challenge, but the difference is that most of them had the emotional regulation capacity to be able to cope with the situation.
People keep saying “why does Teddy keep being done over by producers?”. I’ll tell you why- it’s because they know Faye is emotionally vulnerable and so they have been deliberately portraying Teddy in a bad light to upset Faye for entertainment value. What the producers probably don’t understand the full extent of, is that this is exploitation, and they are triggering Faye’s mental health issues and previous trauma in an uncontrolled environment. It’s ethically appalling.
It doesn’t matter that it’s Faye. It doesn’t matter that she’s a woman. If it was a man, or if it was Teddy behaving in this way, I would be shouting the exact same thing at my television: “get that person out of that situation, take them out of Love Island, and give them therapy and support”.
Anybody who behaves in that domestically abusive way, male or female, needs long term therapy and should not be on Love Island. So just remember that before you abuse her on this thread- nobody is born to behave in that manner. The producers should hang their heads in shame for a) orchestrating the situation and b) not diffusing it immediately.