The following blog posts are written by people with personal experience of personality disorders. By talking openly, our bloggers hope to increase understanding around mental health, break down stereotypes and take the taboo out of something that – like physical health – affects us all.
Personality Disorders: blogs and personal stories
A sudden loss of someone I hold dear caused me to re-examine my own life and begin to change it. I have always been very secretive when it came to my mental health, feeling ashamed and weak (views which people often express that just add to my own insecurities).
After childhood years of “bad behaviour” and “awkwardness” and my teenage thoughts locked away dangerously in my own head I found myself screaming - mid argument during the longest and darkest depression I had ever endured - “there is something wrong with me!” There it was: the elephant in the room. I had just said it.
Sometimes I think back about my bullies and feel myself seething with rage, other times I completely understand why they did it. I was always an odd one at school, either bursting into tears at the tiniest thing and not speaking to anyone for days on end, or being so hyper that I'd get sent out of lessons and given detentions every other day.Need support?
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