"For the first time, I stopped being ‘27 personalities in a trenchcoat’."
When my mother died when I was eight, I was shuffled into a psychologist’s office in short order- adopted brown kid in a white area,...
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Anonymous
- May 30, 2023
- 5 min
"My Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosis made the doctor feel I ‘wasn’t truly trans’."
I have a myriad of conditions- all diagnosed in adulthood- however I have been experiencing symptoms of most of these things since early...
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Anonymous
- Mar 31, 2023
- 2 min
"The people close to me are traumatised from some of my episodes."
I first started becoming aware that something wasn’t right when my family and friends were becoming worried and telling me how extreme my...
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Anonymous
- Mar 8, 2023
- 7 min
"I used to feel dishonest and guilty for how well I function in society and professionally."
I first came across cyclothymia when I Googled ‘Bipolar type 3’ as a joke. So much of my life just made sense. I guess something in me...
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Anonymous
- Dec 20, 2022
- 15 min
"Relationships are difficult when you have certain conditions that are fighting against you."
I have suffered with BPD since I was a teenager (around 14/15 years old) but wasn’t officially diagnosed till I was 19. I have what is...
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Anonymous
- Oct 27, 2022
- 3 min
"The HPD, NPD and BPD diagnoses absolutely demolished everything I worked so hard for."
I first thought, "Damn, I seem to struggle with stuff no one else struggles with," at the age of around nine to twelve, which was when my...
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Anonymous
- Oct 15, 2022
- 4 min
"Sometimes I have to leave a room or walk away from someone if the thoughts are too distressing."
I have Sexual Orientation OCD (SO-OCD), Harm OCD (hOCD) and others I haven't pinned down yet. My main symptoms with OCD are obsessing and...
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Anonymous
- Sep 27, 2022
- 3 min
"The therapist didn’t believe we had DID or autism and told us not to talk about it to anyone."
Hello, I’m Zif and I am part of a DID system. DID, better known as Dissociative Identity Disorder, is thought to be linked to PTSD (Post...
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Anonymous
- Sep 16, 2022
- 4 min
"I worked at a daycare and had constant fears I was harming the children."
I have struggled throughout my life with several forms of OCD: Sexual orientation OCD, harm OCD, relationship OCD and POCD, amongst...
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Anonymous
- Aug 31, 2022
- 3 min
"Having a social life is difficult when you believe everyone is capable of making you ill."
I struggle with OCD, mostly with regards to contamination OCD and religious OCD. I do not remember a time in my life where I did not...
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Anonymous
- Jul 23, 2022
- 4 min
"I am not a monster lurking in the darkness waiting for some victim to manipulate out of boredom."
I have Narcissistic Personality Disorder and other conditions, but surprisingly, NPD is the one that impacts my sexuality the most. To...
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Anonymous
- May 17, 2022
- 7 min
"We are thankful for our DID, as it’s kept us alive."
As a disclaimer, as a Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) system, we will be using both 'we' and 'I’ interchangeably, as we feel that’s...
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Anonymous
- Apr 28, 2022
- 4 min
"If someone is nice to me, I am convinced they have an ulterior motive for being nice."
My BPD symptoms have existed for as long as I can remember, and I spent most of my teens under a CAMHS team. Despite this, I was well...
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Anonymous
- Oct 31, 2021
- 4 min
"Socialising is a minefield, especially when you also have anxiety."
Imagine for a moment that you struggle to think of things to say, have no concept of social navigation (which seemingly comes naturally...
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