Living with Borderline Personality Disorder: blogs and personal stories

Personality disorders range from mild to severe. They typically start in adolescence and persist into adulthood and can cause a range of distressing symptoms and patterns of behaviour including overwhelming feelings of distress, difficulties managing feelings and maintaining stable and secure relationships.

Borderline personality disorder is one of many personality disorders that is listed in the diagnostic manuals of clinicians.

These blogs are written by people with personal experiences of mental health problems including personality disorders. By talking about living with borderline personality disorder they aim to break down stereotypes and take the taboo out of something that can affect us all: mental health stigma and discrimination. Pledge to share your experience of mental health today >>

Find out more about personality disorders including borderline personality disorder from Mind, Rethink or the NHS.

Agoraphobia: "Well that’s ridiculous, just get a grip..."

Submitted by _Flo_ on Thu, 23/05/2013 - 8:44am

I was abused for 17 years, and now even though I’m free from abuse I still live in torment. Due to my upbringing and all my experiences, I have found myself being a 19 year old girl living with Borderline Personality Disorder, PTSD and Agoraphobia. Every single day I have to live in a society that just doesn’t understand and, even though I shouldn’t, I still found myself accepting that a long time ago.

I am not ashamed to say I have borderline personality disorder.

Submitted by _Heather_ on Thu, 02/05/2013 - 6:46pm

Heather blogs about borderline personality disorder My name is Heather. I’m a Leo, I am afraid of heights, I am a natural redhead, I take milk but no sugar in my tea. I have borderline personality disorder too.

It takes so much effort to hide my mental health problems

Submitted by _Liz_ on Mon, 11/03/2013 - 12:37pm

Liz, a Time to Change blogger For me, having Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (also known as Borderline Personality Disorder) means I care deeply about what others think of me. At every opportunity I believe that people are ridiculing me, that they can’t be bothered with me and that I’m a burden to them.

Borderline Personality Disorder and relationships

Submitted by _Ziggy_ on Wed, 30/01/2013 - 9:38am

Ziggy | Time to Change blogger Some mental health problems are relatively well known even if they are not well understood. I have Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), nobody seems to have heard of it and I call the discrimination I get from it the 'Fear of the Unknown'.