A Lot Of Crap

This is Joe. I made him out of my 'I'm Not Going Crazy' PlayDough.

Joe likes jello and building sandcastles. His favorite color is yellow and he loves turtleneck sweaters. He loves you a lot and hopes you're happy.

I think Joe should be the mental health awareness mascot.

It’s much more than that. The emotions we experience are not only intrusive but PAINFUL.

To us, it feels as though the world is ending. Like we are a trapped animal, and the only way of escaping is chewing off our own leg. These feelings are not something you can just casually brush off as “relatable.” Please don’t do that to us.

Stop making it a “relatable” illness when it’s not. It makes us feel invalid when a non BPD person says things like “I know how that feels” or “I relate”. You DONT know how it feels. You DONT go through what we do.

Sure you might experience guilt, depression and anxiety- but not on the same levels as us. I hope you never have to experience that.

i’ll say it for literally 700 whole years but 60% of all people with borderline will attempt suicide!! YOU ARE LITERALLY MORE LIKELY TO MEET A BORDERLINE WHO WILL ACT ON SUICIDAL THOUGHTS THAN NOT!! THE AVERAGE AMOUNT OF TIMES THEY WILL ACT ON THEM IS THREE TIMES IN THEIR LIFE!! THAT’S LITERALLY THREE SEPERATE ATTEMPTS TO STOP LIVING!!

and 10% will have sUCCEEDED!!!!

BORDERLINE SYMPTOMS ARE NOT ABOUT THEIR RELATABILITY THEYRE ABOUT HOW THEY LITERALLY MAKE SO MANY OF US WANT TO STOP LIVING!! WE HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!! FOREVER!! IT’S TERRIBLE!! STOP SAYING WE’RE RELATABLE AND NEUROTYPICALS FEEL THE SAME WAY!!