"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
- Mar 12, 2023
- 4 min
"I try to be as ‘mask-off’ as I can with the people close to me."
I am diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder. I experience all the symptoms; impulsivity, fear...
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Anonymous
- Mar 2, 2023
- 4 min
"I lose half my life to symptom management and trying to be a good person."
I am diagnosed with BPD, ADHD and MDD with co-morbid fibromyalgia and trigeminal neuralgia, off the back of Hodgkins Lymphoma (six years'...
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Anonymous
- Feb 28, 2023
- 4 min
"Professionals are compassionate about my schizoaffective, but not about my personality disorders."
When I got diagnosed with BPD, I was splitting daily on everyone. Even on my kids. I have what they call ‘quiet’ BPD, so my ‘splitting’...
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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
- Jan 21, 2023
- 3 min
"There are so many negatives of having NPD, but I also like who it's made me into."
My most prominent NPD symptom is the excessive need for admiration. It takes up a lot of my thoughts throughout the days, and determines...
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Anonymous
- Jan 18, 2023
- 5 min
"As a male, sometimes I experience shame with HPD, as it is thought to be a ‘girl disorder.'"
My Histrionic Personality Disorder symptoms are often mixed with my Narcissistic Personality Disorder symptoms; wanting excessive...
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Anonymous
- Jan 14, 2023
- 5 min
"Hurting others intentionally or maliciously does nothing to benefit me."
I am a late teenager but I remember that ever since I was around eight to nine years old, I would be unable to feel any empathy for my...
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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 9, 2022
- 8 min
"I’m not going to lie, having a husband with NPD is a challenge."
I have a partner with NPD and wanted to share my story about what life is like living with a diagnosed narcissist. I’d just like to say,...
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Anonymous
- Sep 20, 2022
- 9 min
"My NPD has undoubtedly helped me to climb the greasy pole of school leadership."
I am a teacher with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). That’s probably a statement you are unlikely to hear very often, if at all,...
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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 28, 2022
- 7 min
"Other people are either useful or useless to me, and I don't bother with people that are useless."
Symptoms of conduct and intermittent explosive disorders, for me, started as early as I can remember, with my first younger sibling being...
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Anonymous
- May 2, 2022
- 3 min
"I wish people knew that NPD =/= Abuser."
I have had symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder since I was a child. I don’t recall exactly when this occurred, but I have a...
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Anonymous
- Apr 20, 2022
- 5 min
"I believed I was incapable of, and didn't deserve, recovery, as NPD made me the scum of the earth."
Narcissist seems to be the new buzzword, with people quickly jumping to call their exes or other unfavourable people in their lives...
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Anonymous
- Mar 11, 2022
- 4 min
"The internet is just on a gossip wave and very misinformed about narcissists."
I was diagnosed with a cluster B personality disorder in December 2020. The only category I scored in that was high enough to qualify for...
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