"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 25, 2023
- 5 min
"The misunderstanding is probably that people think OCPD is the same as OCD."
I first began to notice that something wasn’t ‘right’ when I was in my first year of my PhD. It’s a research PhD, so often people have...
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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
- Apr 18, 2023
- 5 min
"Mania is the worst- I have delusions of being God, or being able to speak to the dead."
I began to distance myself from a lot of kids my age when I was around eight years old because I was way more sensitive to emotional...
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Anonymous
- Apr 9, 2023
- 2 min
"We do recover and we do live full lives."
I was ‘odd’ my whole childhood, but what I now know to be BPD symptoms became more pronounced after the death of my mom at eight years...
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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 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
- Dec 28, 2022
- 3 min
"I would see demons everywhere I went and voices would tell me what to do."
I’ve been dealing with depression, self-harm and suicidal ideation since I was 11 years old, maybe earlier. Those gradually got worse...
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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
- Nov 13, 2022
- 6 min
"I see everything about me being on this earth as taking away from somebody else."
Despite its name, at the core of Avoidant Personality Disorder is a debilitating fear of abandonment, much like many other personality...
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Anonymous
- Nov 10, 2022
- 4 min
"With each day, it finds new ways to mess you up."
I can't pinpoint the exact moment I realised I had OCD. I've had symptoms for nearly as long as I can remember. Some of the earliest...
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Anonymous
- Nov 4, 2022
- 3 min
"My psychiatrist affectionately branded me 'the one with the dead fish empathy'."
I think I first knew I had an issue with Conduct Disorder (as much as I could know anything, honestly) in the later years of elementary...
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Anonymous
- Nov 1, 2022
- 5 min
"After the diagnosis, I completely ignored the condition, hoping it would go away."
When I turned eight years old, I started hearing voices inside my head and experiencing an all-consuming depression and despair. My...
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Anonymous
- Oct 30, 2022
- 6 min
"I love to tell stories, and my experiences are a hell of a story to tell."
Although I've never been formally diagnosed, I consider myself someone who would fit under the category of ‘schizotypy’. I don't have...
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Anonymous
- Oct 26, 2022
- 3 min
"I was given colouring books to help with my explosive anger."
I am diagnosed with ASPD, which began as Conduct Disorder in childhood. It's quite difficult for me to remember my early symptoms as it...
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Anonymous
- Aug 11, 2022
- 4 min
"It is important to me that people believe those affected, because very few of us experience that."
I have Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). This means I'm in a permanent dissociative state of my identity. My personality is split...
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Anonymous
- Jun 4, 2022
- 8 min
"I didn’t look or behave how a victim should, so I got no sympathy. And in the end, no justice."
Of all the Cluster B personality disorders, Histrionic Personality Disorder is probably the one people hear the least about. As someone...
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Anonymous
- May 21, 2022
- 3 min
"I just wish people knew how hard it is to actually live with anxiety and that it isn't an excuse."
I have both anxiety and panic attacks. For me, anxiety expresses a lot of physical symptoms and are usually built up beforehand, whereas...
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