“I found out days later that my previous therapist and my psychiatrist diagnosed me without letting me know.”
I would say I started noticing something was not right when I was 14. I was being bullied, so I was experiencing distress on a daily...
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Anonymous
- Jun 2
- 5 min
"BPD isn't a life sentence anymore."
My whole life- even as a child- I felt different from others. I first noticed something wasn't 'right' the month before my final year of...
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Anonymous
- May 11
- 4 min
"Just providing a diagnosis without any information or support wasn't helpful."
I think I knew I had signs of BPD back as a teenager. I would cry every night and have overwhelming thoughts of bad things that...
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Anonymous
- Feb 24
- 4 min
"I have battled to fit into society, working out how to behave and how to communicate."
I think I was 11 or 12 years old when I first knew something was wrong. I was quite alone and developed a storybook world in my head to...
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Anonymous
- Dec 3, 2023
- 6 min
"It helps me to know that I can be a icon of hope for others still at the bottom of the abyss."
I noticed that there was a problem when my boyfriend, with whom I'd been in a long-distance relationship between Brazil and Belgium, came...
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Anonymous
- Nov 12, 2023
- 6 min
"Everything about me could be written off as BPD and my feelings or emotions weren’t valid."
I experience or have experienced all nine symptoms of BPD at different points in my life. Fear of abandonment is one that I deal with all...
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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 14, 2023
- 3 min
"The therapist screamed at me that I was incurable."
I think I have known, since childhood or adolescence, that something wasn’t right. I often saw things as moral imperatives (black and...
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Anonymous
- Aug 3, 2023
- 8 min
"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
- Jul 30, 2023
- 7 min
"Telling someone I have DID feels like putting a flashing sign on my head."
I didn’t have a strong sense that something was wrong for a very long time, which I would later learn is largely the function of...
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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 20, 2023
- 3 min
"I probably call or text my husband 2-3 times an hour, just to make sure he’s OK."
Looking back, the first signs of my OCD began to manifest when I was 13 or 14. I became very rigid with organising my personal belongings...
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Anonymous
- May 27, 2023
- 4 min
"I was always seeking the high of new relationships, attention and sexual interaction."
When I was 14 years old I knew I was ‘sad’, and I couldn’t shake it. I was so incredibly lucky to have a dad who didn’t chalk it up to...
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Anonymous
- May 2, 2023
- 4 min
"The EUPD label is only as helpful as the treatment you receive because of it."
I first noticed my emotions felt ‘bigger’ and increasingly less bearable for me when I was 18, after I struggled to gain the grades I had...
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Anonymous
- Apr 30, 2023
- 3 min
"People don’t grasp the crippling anxiety that comes with OCD."
I was nine years old when anxiety started taking over my life. I was constantly in my head. I was overly scared of things around me, and...
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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
- Mar 23, 2023
- 8 min
"I don't know how to recover and nobody can give me the help I need."
I have BPD and experience intense, overpowering emotions which are difficult to control. I don't really have a sense of identity, but I...
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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 11, 2023
- 4 min
"Someone with HPD is not just an attention-starved actor."
It's a tough question to ask yourself: "Where does your personality begin, and your disorder end?" I dissociate a lot, that's for sure. I...
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