What Its Like Living With Borderline Personality Disorder

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Sammy Grimm shares her experience living with Borderline Personality Disorder, also known as, BPD. After being misdiagnosed BiPolar Disorder Sammy experienced first-hand how the current mental health system is broken and dealing with two stigmas. She has since taken a very proactive role in her own mental health care & has fought for the right diagnosis of BPD.

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[Siran]

Feeling constantly irritated by everyone around you and pushing them away, then complaining you are alone. Feeling victimized by the world. Unable to get close to those around you.

[langstonreece]

when she said “i was always trying to find a better place, but really I was the problem” that hit

[qbiatch]

Kills me to hear her voice only because i know the intense feelings she was experiencing talking about all this. Most have no idea how intense we feel, it's horrible.

[Sango-popi]

BPD is caused by complex childhood trauma in addition to being born a highly sensitive person. We were not allowed to feel or express our emotions freely as children, and we internalized the need to NOT RESPOND as a survival tactic. In doing so, we never learned how to process emotions and cope, and our brains became damaged in those regions. We are scared, we yave suffered psychological abuse, we can recover with the right therapy, we CAN heal, but it starts with re-parenting that traumatized inner child. To everyone out there suffering BPD, i love you, you are not alone!

[isabellaweems]

when you're excited you get diagnosed with BPD because finally you have an identity

[israelmarlo]

Living with bdp is no joke it’s like every emotion we feel is intense the worst part about us getting angry is after we realize what we’ve said or done we immediately feel like complete shit like literally complete shit because the damage has been done

[waitahawhat]

The way she laughs and tries to seem happy when she wants to cry reminds me so much of myself. With borderline you try so hard to be what someone wants you to be. You’re scared of how people will react if you show your real self. You feel guilty all the time.

[pateys]

The cracking in your voice when you describe your feelings shook me. Those intense emotions of BDP are so overwhelming that even discussing them hurts deep. Much love to you

[cinderheartmeow]

Randomly texting your friends paragraphs of emotional bs with absolutely no context at all.

[destinyblossoms]

Her voice was so shaky at the start, that's how I talk too when I'm nervous :(

[sidm]

Hearing this girl's voice trembling shows the amazing courage she has.

[samy]

The most damaging emotion is betrayal. I feel like all of my relationships have suffered because I feel others turn their backs on me.

[TheStan]

Relying on others when you have BPD is a ticking time bomb. you have to be independent.

[insertsomeedgynamelol]

I have bpd and it is hard. I hate going from loving and really enjoying being around a person to being so annoyed with them and disliking them. It's gotten me to a point where I'm kind and friendly to people, but I never let them in. I'm absolutely terrified of love and the worst part is that I really want to be loved. I'm going to college and trying to live my best life. To whomever sees this comment, I wish you endless love and happiness. We deserve to be understood, cared about, and happy. You are not alone, keep strong.

[Sanriosanx]

The pain in her voice resonates with those of us with BPD. It's exhausting to have and infuriating to see how some people romanticize it. I sincerely hope all you stay strong in your hardest moments.

[greyfox]

My ex had BPD. She left in a bery cruel way. I know it was her illness/trauma talking and i was absolutely willing to forgive and work through it, but she just couldnt be reasoned with in that state. It was literally a complete 180, i went from being the greatest thing ever to the worst human to ever exist in her eyes. I cant begin to explain the pain. But i loved her more than I loved anyone. I miss her every day.

[SammyGrimm]

Really appreciate you having me on here!!! Hopefully ppl can understand how bpd is a little bit better. ❤️❤️❤️ Thank you for your support.

[Rashekafreeman]

I just want to cry . I’ve been battling “depression” since I was a kid and now I’m diagnosed with Bpd and this is exactly how I am ... everybody around me still chooses to believe that I act out for attention but I’m literally the sweetest person every until I’m triggered.. I’m always either extremely sad or extremely motivated and excited for no reason .. I always feel like people are pretending to like me or the love that I have for people is more than what they have for me . I’m always so tired and I have given up but now that I know what it is I’m so much more at peace with it while I’m here ❤️

[beni]

living with BPD, Depression and Anxiety has been incredibly overwhelming

[hinda]

The anger in the first part is what drives me a bit off the edge, most of the time. I've got like 2 or 3 people that I genuiely enjoy having closer, but as soon as they change their tone or are simply busy, I literally rage. It's not the kind of anger you easily get through, but you feel a type of rage and betrayel and believe they hate me and they've decided to cut ties with me so I ended up isolating even more.
And it's such a rollercoaster to deal with everytime it happens.