Just Your Friendly Neighbourhood Borderline

Opening up

Leaving a place that makes you uncomfortable

I need to get these out of my head so I’m writing it down here.

- Makes people around us think we are bad people/“psychopaths” -Makes people around us “deal” with us in ways that hurts us/is abusive - Makes us less likely to seek help for our symptoms - Makes us less likely to talk to our families about our symptoms - Makes it harder for people to get help for the disorder because too many resources are for our family instead - Groups personality disorders together which leads to people treating people with different disorders in the same way, which, depending on the disorder, may be harmful - Makes professionals have biases against us which can effect their treatment of us - Means fewer professionals are willing to treat us - Means that each Borderline is treated the same despite the wide range of symptoms possible - Means that Borderlines are hospitalised or put on higher levels of care than necessary just because of their diagnosis - Makes people with BPD less likely to be diagnosed because they’re not “manipulative” or a “drama queen” - Similarly, means people who self harm or are deemed dramatic are labelled or diagnosed falsely with BPD - Means that our serious issues are brushed off as lies, manipulation, or drama - Means that our families believe we have certain traits that we may not have