"BPD isn't a life sentence anymore."
My whole life- even as a child- I felt different from others. I first noticed something wasn't 'right' the month before my final year of...
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Anonymous
- May 26
- 2 min
"I love life, but have extreme difficulty living it."
I felt ‘off’, for the lack of a better word, even as a small child. I always felt that someone was going to notice that I wasn't ‘a real...
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Anonymous
- May 11
- 4 min
"Just providing a diagnosis without any information or support wasn't helpful."
I think I knew I had signs of BPD back as a teenager. I would cry every night and have overwhelming thoughts of bad things that...
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Anonymous
- Mar 17
- 5 min
"The majority of people I have met with OCD have intrusive and disgusting thoughts that cause a lot of guilt and shame."
My first memories of having OCD symptoms began at around six years old. I was an extreme perfectionist. One of my first memories was of...
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Anonymous
- Dec 3, 2023
- 6 min
"It helps me to know that I can be a icon of hope for others still at the bottom of the abyss."
I noticed that there was a problem when my boyfriend, with whom I'd been in a long-distance relationship between Brazil and Belgium, came...
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Anonymous
- Oct 3, 2023
- 7 min
"People don’t see the anxiety and assume I’m being difficult or unprofessional when I can’t cope."
I am a teacher who suffers from social anxiety. That might sound ridiculous, given that I spend nearly all of my working day standing up...
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Anonymous
- Aug 3, 2023
- 8 min
"Dissociative Identity Disorder has brought me so much joy and comfort. I'm literally never alone."
I knew I was mentally ill pretty early on. I remember being in either sixth or seventh grade, and over one of my summers, I was just hit...
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Anonymous
- Jun 20, 2023
- 3 min
"I probably call or text my husband 2-3 times an hour, just to make sure he’s OK."
Looking back, the first signs of my OCD began to manifest when I was 13 or 14. I became very rigid with organising my personal belongings...
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Anonymous
- Jun 15, 2023
- 4 min
"I stopped taking meds after I became dependent on Xanax."
I got diagnosed with cyclothymia in October 2022. I started having the first symptoms in June 2020 after my aunt's death. Since the age...
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Anonymous
- May 23, 2023
- 2 min
"When the O in OCD gets you, nothing can break it."
I’m 36 now, but my OCD symptoms started when I was younger. High school wasn’t something I enjoyed and my mum had a history of OCD, so...
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Anonymous
- May 7, 2023
- 4 min
"Mental health care is so expensive- the meds alone cost roughly 30 percent of my monthly salary."
I remember that from the age of 13 years old, I was always anxious. After trauma hit me, my mind was running nonstop with anxiety. Life...
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Anonymous
- Apr 30, 2023
- 3 min
"People don’t grasp the crippling anxiety that comes with OCD."
I was nine years old when anxiety started taking over my life. I was constantly in my head. I was overly scared of things around me, and...
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Anonymous
- Apr 22, 2023
- 6 min
"I spend a lot of time tortured by my own thoughts- the paranoia brings out the worst in me."
I was diagnosed with Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD) several years ago after knowing for a while that I probably had it. My symptoms...
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Anonymous
- Apr 15, 2023
- 5 min
"I believe my daughter would have been taken from me due to my OCD."
I first noticed there was something off around 17, but when I looked back after diagnosis, I realized I had been experiencing symptoms...
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Anonymous
- Apr 3, 2023
- 2 min
"People think you can just turn off the thoughts."
I knew something was off at around 10 years old. I was experiencing depressive and anxious thoughts, but didn’t start speculating that I...
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Anonymous
- Mar 28, 2023
- 5 min
"OCD is not a choice or a voluntary trait, it’s a disorder."
I’ve always had symptoms of OCD; I just didn’t know it was OCD nor were the symptoms debilitating at the time, as would become the case...
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Anonymous
- Mar 25, 2023
- 3 min
"I heard the nurse say, 'Let’s get this mental case to sleep.'"
I first began noticing something was wrong when I was a sophomore in high school. I started to chatter my teeth (shiver), vomit, and...
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Anonymous
- Mar 18, 2023
- 5 min
"People with personality disorders have the same capacity to be good people as anyone else."
My symptoms of Schizotypal Personality Disorder are mainly along the lines of magical thinking, strange ideas of reference, odd beliefs,...
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Anonymous
- Mar 6, 2023
- 6 min
"People don’t understand the difficulty living with EUPD and trying to live like a normal person."
I have EUPD, which I was diagnosed with in 2017. I have had anxiety and diagnosed depression disorder since 2015, and also PTSD since...
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Anonymous
- Mar 4, 2023
- 4 min
"Mental illness is not a subtraction in some equation."
I noticed at about 13 years old that something wasn’t right. But if I look back now, the signs were there earlier too. I noticed that I...
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