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With BPD being one of the most stigmatized mental health disorders, I have to admit I’m fearful of what a prospect may think about my diagnosis.

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Recovery is an inconsistent and isolating experience.

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After over half a decade of feeling this heavy sense of grief and overall mental discomfort, it becomes your normal. It’s kind of like seeing a coworker you hate every day for years on end. You grow used to it and deal with it, but you pray for the day they put their two weeks in.

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Your anxiety is coded as fear because you’re trying to protect yourself from all the possible negative outcomes. 

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It is a privilege to wake up each day and not have to take medication before you do anything else. It is a privilege to not have to think about antidepressants at all, actually.

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I know that BPD gets the rap as one of the hardest mental illnesses because we are “manipulative and deceiving,” but once I received my diagnoses, it woke me.

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I’m writing this because I have OCD, and I’m bitter as hell about it.

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I went into a coma due to a combination of my battle with bulimia and an overdose on antidepressants.