"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
- 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
- Mar 18, 2023
- 5 min
"People with personality disorders have the same capacity to be good people as anyone else."
My symptoms of Schizotypal Personality Disorder are mainly along the lines of magical thinking, strange ideas of reference, odd beliefs,...
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Anonymous
- Oct 15, 2022
- 4 min
"Sometimes I have to leave a room or walk away from someone if the thoughts are too distressing."
I have Sexual Orientation OCD (SO-OCD), Harm OCD (hOCD) and others I haven't pinned down yet. My main symptoms with OCD are obsessing and...
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Anonymous
- Sep 25, 2022
- 2 min
"I missed out on a lot of experiences because avoidance was my coping mechanism."
I have Avoidant Personality Disorder (AvPD), which is a Cluster C personality disorder. As the name suggests, it involves avoidance of...
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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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Anonymous
- Apr 18, 2022
- 7 min
"I couldn’t bring myself to leave the house- I cried on the doorstep for three hours."
Today was the fifth time I have left the house since 2017. That’s five times in five years. If you think that’s extreme, that’s because...
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