Please Stop Using My Borderline Diagnosis As An Insult | More Than Borderline – HealthyPlace

It’s time to rethink the ways we talk about borderline personality disorder. Here’s why.

Source: Please Stop Using My Borderline Diagnosis As An Insult | More Than Borderline – HealthyPlace

BPD Misconceptions | xsullengirlx

6 misconceptions someone with borderline personality disorder wants you to know | Patient

I know a lot of people with BPD, and I can hands down say that they are some of the most empathic human beings I know. As Borderlines, we are …

Source: 6 misconceptions someone with borderline personality disorder wants you to know | Patient

Borderline Personality Disorder: Fact vs Fiction | McLean Hospital

So you think you know about borderline personality disorder? Think again. Many of us have seen Fatal Attraction where the lead female character is described as having borderline personality disorder (BPD), but the diagnosis is not that Hollywood portrayal. In fact, despite great efforts through a number of organizations, including McLean Hospital, Project 375, and the Linehan Institute, there are still many misconceptions about BPD. And unfortunately, along with misconceptions, comes stigma.

Source: Borderline Personality Disorder: Fact vs Fiction | McLean Hospital

Men with BPD: A Short Movie

Trigger Warnings Proposed On College Materials

I just read a few articles about college students requesting that trigger warnings be put on their books.  This is due to many of them having Post-Traumatic Stress symptoms.  I think it’s a great idea.  Critics say that they shouldn’t have to put warnings on the classics and that they’d have to put warnings on every little thing, and that if they’re in college, they should “grow up”, “get over it” and that “real life doesn’t come with trigger warnings.”

What is your take on this idea?  Do you think it would be too hard to put trigger warnings on materials?  What do you say to the naysayers?  Let me know in the comments below.  Thanks,

– Joyce.

Common Misconceptions And Myths Attached To BPD, Lets Get a Few Things Straight! | Bridget Of The North

Common Misconceptions And Myths Attached To BPD, Lets Get a Few Things Straight! | Bridget Of The North.

‘Manipulative’????? And how she is dead… Suicide trigger warning | Beauty From Pain Blog

‘Manipulative’????? And how she is dead… Suicide trigger warning | Beauty From Pain Blog.

Tracing the rainbow through the Rain: Why do you have to be so mean?

Tracing the rainbow through the Rain: Why do you have to be so mean?.

Facebook Challenges

Yesterday, I was messaged by a couple of Facebook friends.  They were both having a very difficult time.  I provided some support and felt good doing it.  The only reason I want more Facebook Likes is because I want to spread awareness of Borderline Personality Disorder and help eliminate stigma.  It’s so unknown, and what people think they know about it is so far from the truth.

There are many sites out there providing support for the “victims” of us Borderline Monsters, but not as many for us Borderlines.  I’d love to change that.  We need to support each other.  There are some out there if you know where to look.  If you check my Facebook Page, you’ll see many Pages I’ve shared.  You can also look under other Pages I’ve “Liked”.

To those who messaged me yesterday, if you are reading this, I hope you are having a much better day than yesterday.  I am always there if you just need to vent, I can listen.  I’m a great listener.  Huge hugs to anyone needing them today.  Have a great day,

– Joyce.

The BPD diagnosis does not stop me being human

http://www.time-to-change.org.uk/blog/bpd-diagnosis-does-not-stop-me-being-human

Ethics & Mental Health Journalism: The Difficult Case of Borderline Personality Disorder

By Dominic Sisti, PhD

There is an excellent chart in this article:

http://www.mentalhealthjournalism.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Carter-Center-BlogSisti.pdf

Fatigue and BPD – A Cartoon

What Fatigue and BPD Feels Like to Me:

Deception and the Borderline Personality: What Could have Been? New Comment

Excellent comment to a very stigmatizing article / blog post:

***POSSIBLE TRIGGER WARNING!*** for the article replied to.

http://organizationalchangesolutions.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/deception-and-the-borderline-personality-what-could-have-been/#comment-1479

Guys Self Harm Too

I’m Not Your Borderline (BPD) Ex-Girlfriend!

Another Rant on BPD and Stigma

So many books, articles and blogs are very damaging to Borderlines.  They have tips on things like how to “train your Borderline.”  I’m not kidding!  Here is a passage from one such book:

One analogy I have used around this issue is:  “My H is really a good, law-abiding person.  It’s just that every once in a while he robs a bank.  But really, deep down inside, he is a good, law-abiding person.”

So, we’re all bank-robbers?  Seriously? Not only that, apparently we’re all sociopaths/psychopaths too.  Just check out these articles:

 

http://www.downwardspiralintothevortex.com/2011/05/bordering-on-sociopathy_18.html

http://www.downwardspiralintothevortex.com/2012/12/article-mental-illness-how-media.html

 

I’d love to know what your thoughts are on this.  Please comment below:

Anti-BPD/Mental Health

http://thebpdlife.blogspot.ca/2013/07/anti-bpdmental-health.html

A Self-Injurer’s Bill of Rights | Articles/Essays/Opinions | Creativity | self-injury.net

A Self-Injurer’s Bill of Rights | Articles/Essays/Opinions | Creativity | self-injury.net.

Battling Borderline Personality Disorder: BPD Myths

Battling Borderline Personality Disorder: BPD Myths.

My BPD Presentation

Original ‘Smiley’ logo (actually most often called a “Happy face” in the 1970s). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Grow A Thicker Skin” (Cyber-bullying, etc.)

I’ve read many stories lately about young people committing suicide.  I’m sure that many of them have undiagnosed BPD.  Some of the comments are just dreadful!  Obviously, they have no idea what these people were going through, or else they just don’t care.  They say things like they should just “grow a thicker skin.”  These comment are very insensitive and totally unhelpful.

Many of these kids were cyber-bullied.  Many commenters blamed the parents and said they should just take their computers and internet away.  I believe that they definitely need moderation, but blaming the parents isn’t the solution.  These kids are going to go online anyway.  They can go to a friend’s house.

I’ve even heard people blaming the victim!  Asking “Why didn’t she just get off that site?”  It’s not that easy.  Teens are very vulnerable.  Teen girls especially feel the need to fit in with their peers.  If everyone else is using this site and they’re not, they’ll feel so left out.  I’m not saying that’s not an option, I’m just trying to explain to people who don’t understand.

People don’t need to just “grow a thicker skin” anyways.  Without highly sensitive people, we would have no writers, no poets, no painters.  We sensitive people are very empathetic to the needs of others.  We are caring.  We are doctors, we are nurses, we are counsellors.  We like to make people laugh and bring a smile to their faces, so that they can forget about the pain that they might be going through, because we’ve been there ourselves.  Many of us are still going through it.  It is because we understand pain and suffering that we feel the need to comfort others and relieve their suffering.

What people suffering from mental illness need; whether from depression, cyber-bullying, etc.; is compassion, erased stigma and misconceptions, awareness.

Please help me MAKE BPD STIGMA-FREE!

 

Mental disorder seen as ‘badness, not sickness’ | Psychology | Science News

Mental disorder seen as ‘badness, not sickness’ | Psychology | Science News.

Depression is more than simple unhappiness | Margaret McCartney | Comment is free | theguardian.com

Depression is more than simple unhappiness | Margaret McCartney | Comment is free | theguardian.com.