“I found out days later that my previous therapist and my psychiatrist diagnosed me without letting me know.”

"Just providing a diagnosis without any information or support wasn't helpful."

"I have battled to fit into society, working out how to behave and how to communicate."

"For the first time, I stopped being ‘27 personalities in a trenchcoat’."

"Discovering how to enjoy being alone is really what saved me from feeling lonely."

"There are times when I am still unaware of my own switching. "

"The fact that recovery wasn’t a linear process was really difficult for me to accept."

"You’re constantly under scrutiny for the way you react and it causes you to feel like a villain."

"Anything at all can make me absolutely break down."

"My Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosis made the doctor feel I ‘wasn’t truly trans’."

"I struggle to maintain relationships, because I tend to act out of character during an episode."

"Bipolar has made my life richer and I’m grateful, despite the challenges."

"Mania is the worst- I have delusions of being God, or being able to speak to the dead."

"I don't know how to recover and nobody can give me the help I need."

"Some days I feel like bipolar’s puppet."

"When in crisis, I was often seen as ‘attention seeking’ and not taken as seriously."

"I self-sabotage a lot because it feels easier than dealing with the negative emotions."

"I would see demons everywhere I went and voices would tell me what to do."

"Relationships are difficult when you have certain conditions that are fighting against you."

"I have ended up in tears because I am not being taken seriously."