"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
- Feb 17
- 10 min
"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
- Nov 4, 2023
- 15 min
"There are times when I am still unaware of my own switching. "
For most of my childhood, I lived an excruciatingly abusive, dysfunctional, neglectful, overwhelming and isolating life. However, I...
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Anonymous
- Oct 21, 2023
- 4 min
"The fact that recovery wasn’t a linear process was really difficult for me to accept."
For as long as I can remember, I have felt different. In primary school, I was bullied and excluded. So, when I was about 10 years old, I...
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Anonymous
- Aug 9, 2023
- 5 min
"Professionals were obsessed with finding a trauma that could have caused my symptoms."
I was 19 when I first went to a doctor, but that was for my bulimia and to be honest I was totally dismissed and invalidated by said...
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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
- Apr 6, 2023
- 2 min
"I wish people knew that I am not a monster for having so many disorders."
My path to a BPD diagnosis began four years ago. I fell in love with a guy, but he didn't love me back. He instead started dating my best...
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Anonymous
- Feb 9, 2023
- 13 min
"Trying to manage through the paranoia, the desperation, the dread, food's distraction and comfort."
I have always had a sort of ambivalent relationship to my body. I haven’t always taken very good care of it, and at times it has shown....
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Anonymous
- Jan 30, 2023
- 5 min
"I’m lucky to have a strong moral code. Empathy really doesn’t seem as necessary as morality."
I have always naturally loved having an ‘audience’. As a child, I was seen as exceptionally intelligent and gifted, was praised a lot but...
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Anonymous
- Dec 14, 2022
- 4 min
"I've been very private about having CPTSD, because it means explaining what caused it."
I had a longstanding diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder, alongside depression and anxiety, which has recently been re-diagnosed as CPTSD...
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Anonymous
- Dec 8, 2022
- 2 min
"The most pernicious aspect of anorexia is the narrowing of everything which gives you pleasure."
It’s difficult to know exactly when my anorexia began. It’s a notoriously insidious illness which slowly entangles the mind; its...
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Anonymous
- Dec 2, 2022
- 3 min
"I was told to just Google DBT and fix myself."
I was diagnosed with Dependent Personality Disorder in March 2021. I always have high anxiety and I am really dependent on people around...
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Anonymous
- Nov 20, 2022
- 8 min
"BPD makes me feel like I'm very hard to love."
I was diagnosed with Panic Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder and an eating disorder when I was a teenager. Later when I was 22, a...
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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
- Jun 11, 2022
- 3 min
"I walked for two and a half hours, crying and feeling like life was over."
This is my story with DID/OSDD. It all started at around my 10th birthday. I don't really remember much but I know that at about this...
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Anonymous
- May 4, 2022
- 3 min
"It’s a compulsion and I can’t do anything to stop the urge to eat and eat."
When people talk of addiction, they tend to think about alcohol and drugs. But for me, my compulsion to consume is to something that most...
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Anonymous
- Mar 2, 2022
- 4 min
"I really hate the term 'high functioning BPD'. I am barely functioning, you just can’t tell."
It was Spring Break of my senior year of college. I chose to stay at school for the break. I was supposed to spend the week studying....
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Anonymous
- Feb 9, 2022
- 7 min
"If I’m sad, I eat. If I’m happy, I eat. If I’m bored, I eat. If I’m stressed, I eat."
Although I was diagnosed with Binge Eating Disorder (BED) some time ago, this is one of the only times I have spoken about it. BED...
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Anonymous
- Nov 7, 2021
- 4 min
"I needed a guide to overcoming the crippling grief inside my bones."
I’m 33 and have Borderline Personality Disorder, bulimia and PTSD, all of which I have been dealing with since I was a child. I lived...
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