“I found out days later that my previous therapist and my psychiatrist diagnosed me without letting me know.”
I would say I started noticing something was not right when I was 14. I was being bullied, so I was experiencing distress on a daily...
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Anonymous
- Jun 2
- 5 min
"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 30
- 3 min
"Every aspect of my life was picked over in minute detail."
I knew when I was 12 that I was different. I had horrific social anxiety. I was either wildly happy or I felt the world was going to end...
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Anonymous
- Mar 9
- 2 min
"It is very deeply misunderstood that people who have ASPD feel absolutely nothing."
As a child, I often remember having to make myself ‘fit in’. I learned to mask my lack of certain emotions early on. I remember not being...
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Anonymous
- Mar 3
- 3 min
"I can understand why people feel the feels, I just cannot feel them myself."
It all started in my teenage years. I always knew I was somehow ‘weird’. After I had my child in 2010 I really knew that something was...
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Anonymous
- Feb 10
- 2 min
"You can’t just switch depression or mania off."
I first noticed something wasn’t right when I was about 27 and I went through my first mania-induced psychotic episode, which was swiftly...
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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
- Jul 7, 2023
- 5 min
"I often get scared for myself that one day, I won't manage being depressed anymore."
I wake up most mornings not knowing what mood I'm going to be in or how many times my moods will switch that day, although most days I...
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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
- Jun 5, 2023
- 3 min
"I was denied a promotion due to my mental health and perceived 'instability'."
I think the first time I noticed something wasn’t right was when I needed to take a break a lot from playing with other kids and my...
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Anonymous
- Jun 2, 2023
- 3 min
"Anything at all can make me absolutely break down."
My clinical depression disables me on a daily basis. Depression came out of nowhere, and then it never left. I was 12 when I first got a...
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Anonymous
- May 27, 2023
- 4 min
"I was always seeking the high of new relationships, attention and sexual interaction."
When I was 14 years old I knew I was ‘sad’, and I couldn’t shake it. I was so incredibly lucky to have a dad who didn’t chalk it up to...
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Anonymous
- May 20, 2023
- 4 min
"After an issue rightfully angered me at work, my boss asked, 'Did you take your medicine today?'"
I would say I recognized the feeling of not being ‘right’ in my late 30s, although since being diagnosed I can look back and see signs of...
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Anonymous
- May 16, 2023
- 4 min
"PTSD is often still portrayed as ‘shell shock’ and related to people like war veterans."
I think I realised pretty early into my teen years that something was off in my head. From about 13 onwards, I would spend a lot of time...
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Anonymous
- May 11, 2023
- 2 min
"I struggle to maintain relationships, because I tend to act out of character during an episode."
I guess I knew I might be bipolar from a pretty young age- probably 14 or 15. However I wasn’t officially diagnosed until age 29. I...
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Anonymous
- May 5, 2023
- 10 min
"I said, “I am having a psychiatric crisis and need help,” and they turned me away."
I didn’t really realize at the time what was happening, but now looking back I can see that I was experiencing symptoms of bipolar back...
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Anonymous
- Apr 27, 2023
- 5 min
"Bipolar has made my life richer and I’m grateful, despite the challenges."
The first sign my mental health was going downhill was getting hit like a tonne of bricks with anxiety, panic disorder and OCD the week I...
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Anonymous
- Apr 26, 2023
- 2 min
"My symptoms are not my fault, and I'm not doing it on purpose. "
I first noticed something wasn't right as a teenager. I experienced symptoms of depression like sadness, withdrawal and insomnia. The...
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