I just wanted to take a moment and talk about @anthonypadilla video on BPD and personally I very much enjoyed it and thought that it was well done. It talked about how people see us and how we actually are with BPD, it talked about the stigma with it 1/?

And especially the stigma surrounding therapist, social workers, etc.
Personally for me my diagnosis wasn’t written down on paper because they didn’t want to properly diagnose me, so for a very long time I just shrugged it off. But up until about a year ago I talked to my mum2/?

About it and she acknowledged that I did have BPD and that she was doing research about it (she’s a mental health worker) and that she was hesitant at first to acknowledge it because of the stigma around it. But personally I have found that it has helped a lot to know that i 3/?

Have BPD! I have done lots of DBT for it and other types of therapy and I’ve learned how to cope with it. Unfortunately BPD isn’t something you can help with meds, it’s really therapy that can help (with that being said I do take meds for my depression and ADHD and I’m sure 4/?

That they help in some aspects!)
But a big thing i really struggle with is relationships and friendships. I latch onto people quite quickly and I just care about people a lot. I’ve been told that this is toxic, but this is who I am, and I’ve been trying to learn how to step 5/?

Back a bit, and try to progress friendships a bit slower. But it’s hard, and honestly I like how I get close to people, but I can understand that it is hard for others.
Anyways, thank you Anthony for putting light on BPD, because it has such a bad stigma around it, and all 6/?

We are doing is trying to cope with this! So thank you 7/7