Josh is Irrelevant.

**Josh is Irrelevant.**

## Plot

Rebecca is recovering at Glenn Willow Medical Center after attempting suicide on her flight back from Scarsdale. In the waiting room, Valencia and Heather are updated by Paula on Rebecca’s now stable condition. Paula asks that they pass the news along to everyone in Rebecca's social circle. When Josh shows up the three women tell him to leave. In Rebecca’s hospital room, Dr. Akopian tells her patient she did the right thing by asking for help. She plans to work alongside the hospital psychiatrist to get Rebecca the treatment she needs. At the Whitefeather & Associates, Nathaniel is briefly interrupted by George as he struggles to write a message on a card he’s sending Rebecca.

Back at the hospital, Valencia posts updates on social media about Rebecca and criticizes Heather when she shows up with her new boyfriend Hector. Before being discharged from the hospital, Rebecca is visited by staff psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Shin. He believes she's been misdiagnosed for years and is researching her case for a new take on it. The next day Rebecca goes to Dr. Shin's office eager to learn what his diagnosis will be *(♫ A Diagnosis ♫)*. Shin cautions her not to look anything up online before he can fully explain. Although she exhibits a number of different symptoms, he believes she has borderline personality disorder. He tells her they'll go over it in detail once they attend a group therapy session.

Rebecca ignores Dr. Shin's warning and researches BPD on her phone. She learns people with the disorder are stigmatized, need lifetime treatment and 10% of them die by suicide. Rebecca skips group therapy and returns home where she complains about her diagnosis to Paula, Heather and Valencia. Paula suggests they get a second opinion and they go to see Dr. Akopian. At the law firm, Nathaniel is still working on his note to Rebecca when George interrupts again. The ramblings of his employee triggers a long suppressed memory in Nathaniel, who leaves the office. He goes to his parents' house and asks his mother and father if she tried to commit suicide when he was a child.

Nathaniel's parents refuse to discuss the matter and he gets kicked out after upsetting his mother. At Rebecca's home, Heather believes Valencia's social media updates are self-serving but her friend insists they are altruistic *(♫ This Is My Movement ♫)*. Meanwhile, Rebecca and Paula barge in on Dr. Akopian's session with Kevin, who leaves. Rebecca insists she be given a new diagnosis but Dr. Akopian instead goes over several different symptoms of BPD. Rebecca accepts Dr. Shin was right upon realizing the list accurately describes her. She goes home and tells Heather and Valencia what happened before going to bed. Over at Sugar Face, Josh asks Hector how Rebecca is doing as he feels responsible for her actions.

Rebecca wakes up the next morning to find that Heather, Valencia and Paula had held a vigil outside her bedroom. She goes to use the bathroom and listens to some music *(♫ You Do/You Don’t Want To Be Crazy ♫)*. Her friends worry when they don't get an answer after knocking on the door. Much to their relief Rebecca opens the door just as Heather is about to use an axe to bust in. Valencia has an emotional breakdown, unable to keep up her facade of inspiring hope when she can't deal with the thought of losing her friend. Rebecca comforts her but says she can't promise, even to herself, that she won't attempt suicide again. All she can do is work on her issues and hope for the best.

A very sunburned Darryl arrives having just got back from a remote desert yurt with his boyfriend. Upon learning what happened he rushed back to West Covina in an open convertible. Rebecca apologizes to him and her friends for the horrible things she said to them days ago. Outside on the porch, Josh also shows up having brought a puppy for Rebecca. When he overhears Darryl inside the house blaming him for what happened, Josh keeps his presence hidden. Responding to Darryl, Rebecca said her actions weren't Josh's fault as it was never really about him, but rather her own personal issues. When she declares him to be largely irrelevant to her now, Josh quietly departs.

## Recurring themes

### Songs

"**A Diagnosis**"
**Performed by**: Rebecca Bunch
**Writers**: Rachel Bloom and Adam Schlesinger
Rebecca is hopeful about a new diagnosis.

"**This Is My Movement**"
**Performed by**: Valencia Perez
**Writers**: Adam Schlesinger, Rachel Bloom and Jack Dolgen
Valencia spreads the word.

### Continuity

* **Backstory**:
	+ It’s revealed Kevin, the Home Base manager, witnessed his mother shoot his father in front of him.
	+ Hector mentions in the third grade Valencia cut off his rat tail because he sat at her desk once.
	+ Rebecca mentions she had six months of Bulimia while in college.
	+ Nathaniel remembers as a child finding his mother after she attempted suicide. She at first denies this but eventually admits to it.
* **Continuation**: This episide picks up not long after the events of the previous one with Rebecca now in the hospital following her suicide attempt.
* **Callback**:
	+ Heather tells Rebecca not to crawl through Dr. Akopian’s doggy door referencing the Season One Episode “I'm So Happy That Josh Is So Happy!”
	+ Heather has an axe handy in her home because she lives in the “Murder house” where multiple homicides occurred. This was revealed in the Season Two episode “Who Needs Josh When You Have a Girl Group?.”
* **Relationship developments**:
	+ Rebecca apologizes to her friends for what she said to them in the episode “Josh’s Ex-Girlfriend Is Crazy.”
	+ Hector and Heather are dating now.
	+ Nathaniel and his mother become closer after she admits she tried to commit suicide when he was a child.
* **Plot points**: After years of being misdiagnosed Rebecca is identified as having Borderline personality disorder.

* Dr. Akopian makes her first appearance of Season Three. Her last appearance was in the Season Two episode “Can Josh Take A Leap Of Faith?.”
* Dr. Daniel Shin debuts as Rebecca’s as the hospitals psychiatric consultant who diagnosis Rebecca psychological affliction.
* Hector appears in this episode.
* Nathaniel Plimpton II returns.
* Nathaniel’s mother Gigi Plimpton debuts.
* Kevin returns in this episode as a patient of Dr. Akopian.

* Glenn Willow Medical Center returns.
* Whitefeather & Associates appears.
* Rebecca and Heather's house appears.
* Plimpton residence debuts.
* Dr. Akopian’s office returns.

* Valencia uses Facebook to post video updates on Rebecca’s condition.
* Rebeccas stuffed alligator toy which is named Ruth Gator Ginsberg after the Supreme Court Justice.

### Running jokes

* **Poopsgiving**:
	+ Paula assisted Rebecca when she went to the bathroom by wiping for her. She admits she made it weirder by looking Rebecca in the eyes as she did it.
	+ Valencia’s song “This Is My Movement” is one long poop joke. Heather comments on this and Valencia confirms it herself when she admits she hasn’t pooped in a month.