I was diagnosed with Panic Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder and an eating disorder when I was a teenager. Later when I was 22, a psychiatrist told me they thought I had BPD. Six years later I was diagnosed with BPD again when I was seeking accommodations to help me finish college. BPD impacts me in…
I was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder whilst I was in long inpatient admissions back in 2019. I was doing well the last two years- I took my meds, went to therapy and did a second DBT programme, but due to my diagnosis and a past section, I am now involved with social services since…
When I turned eight years old, I started experiencing chronic suicidality, hearing voices inside my head and experiencing this all-consuming depression and despair. My mother was the one to realise that something wasn’t quite right because when I was nine years old, I told her that I wanted to die. And when I was 12,…
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 family problems, losses and the start of puberty kind of collided. These circumstances have culminated in diagnoses as an adult of Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD), Narcissistic Personality Disorder…
I am diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder. I experience all the symptoms; impulsivity, fear of abandonment, paranoia, splitting, lack of guilt and remorse, and so on. When I began treatment I was having hallucinations as well – not anymore though. I manage them a lot better with professional help. I still…
I have EUPD, which I was diagnosed with in 2017. I have had anxiety and diagnosed depression disorder since 2015, and also PTSD since around that time. I have always suffered with my mental health since I was a child, say the ages of 13 to14, but it wasn’t widely spoken about then. It was…
I am diagnosed with BPD, ADHD, MDD with co-morbid fibromyalgia and trigeminal neuralgia, off the back of Hodgkins Lymphoma (six years remission). I struggle with symptoms related to emotional regulation— the chronic emptiness that comes and goes with BPD, extreme apathy, dissociation, intense inner anguish, explosive rage and impulsivity. These emotions are so intense they…
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’ was mostly internal, although if anyone bothered me while I was splitting, I’d usually flip, yell at them, run away and hide. My internal state was so miserable, because…
I was diagnosed with BPD first when I was 18 after suspecting for two years, but CAMHS dismissed my symptoms. I could not control my emotions and experienced fluctuations within my mood, self image and levels of anger. All of my friendships and relationships were turbulent and ended badly as I become completely dependent on…
My diagnoses are Borderline Personality Disorder and Dependent Personality Disorder. I was diagnosed with BPD in 2016 and DPD more recently in 2021. I got diagnosed with BPD in a mental health hospital after my whole life broke down (loss of marriage, loss of motherhood – my son staying with his dad, loss of my…