Short Films About Mental Health - Personality Disorders

Short Films About Mental Health is a series of videos made with young people who use mental health services at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.

Interviewer - Amy Burns
Monologue Voice Over - Amy Gill
Actor - Sofie Hartnell
Clinical Psychologist - Dr Stephanie Hunter
Dialectical Behavioural Therapist - Annya Alfoadari, DBT Lead Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Psychologist Dr. Hannah Stratford Highfield Adolescent Unit, Oxford
With thanks to Dr Anthony James Consultant Psychiatrist Highfield Adolescent Unit, Oxford
Producer Stuart Hobbs Multi Media Project Lead Highfield Adolescent Unit, Oxford

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[Future]

Over three years now i have been waiting for this treatment. The NHS can make a pretty video but that is about all.

If you are the uk and cannot afford private treatment, well you are left behind.

[yoannabailey]

I already knew I had bpd but hearing her talk made me cry.. everything she said I feel and it feels amazing to have someone word it for you

[mstrwul]

I get this. I hid my ptsd and severe depression for many years. I tried to act normal but inside I was falling apart. So this then developed into a personality disorder. The most trivial thing can have a major effect on me. I had to resign from my job due to my diagnosis.

[Sameoldfitup]

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams..

[mollygracex]

Me watching this... relating to things I thought only I knew about and nobody else felt 👁👄👁

[savannahb]

If I feel someone losing interest, I will either desperately try to keep them or cut them off before they have the chance. I also have so many clothes because I change my personality and my looks a lot. I am able to switch between personalities so quickly depending on who I’m around. Which personality will they like. When I’m alone, I don’t really know who the fuck i am. I also never take my anger out on another person, just myself. It sucks to have these overwhelming feelings that I can’t control. I feel a strong need to control others emotions toward me. I get really frustrated if I can’t.

[ashskullcrush]

The second lady that spoke has such a soothing voice 😌

[damiesapphire]

i push people away so i don't need to be afraid of abandonment

[porshalouise]

"Feel like I'm watching myself from across the room" oh god how relatable is that

[radhikapatel]

Mental health is a condition that is caused in the brain it can affect feelings, thoughts and emotions. WARNING : mental health is not joke it’s a serious matter that will have to face and deal with it.

[jjadac]

Could you guys make a short film about Histronic personality disorder, I don't see enough people talk about it and I wish more people knew about it.

[Sameoldfitup]

(The Roots Of My Personality Disorder)
At the age of 7 years old I was betrayed by my father & abandoned on the street. My step mother took me along to social services & left me outside the building. I spent the first year with a foster family but then snatched away and placed in a children's home, a year later they moved me to another children's home where i lived for 8 years. I spent most of my school years looking out of the classroom windows day dreaming & wishing the day would go fast. I left school & the children's home with no life skills at all. From the age of 5 to 7 years old i knew only abuse at the hands of my step mother & her children.

[marquaywashington]

Omg that first scenario describes me exactly on point...everything is starting to make sense now.

[qkyyxiq]

I know how that feels from feeling fine happy with people and if they change on me even when I have not done anything to them it makes me sad and distressed.

[Anon-xdcf]

This *soft spoken* means of communication is an out dated mode of discourse that needs to change.
I understand some of the reasons for it to be the default starting tone but generally it sounds strained and disingenuous.

1:00 - 4:46 *soft-speak example*
8:31 - 14:29 *respectful empathic tone example*

Please tell me its not just my BPD brain that finds the tone in the first example a little insulting.

[dillonhughess]

Thank you for this!! This is amazing I can really understand what having BPD is like :(

[mayalove]

OH MY FREAKING I think I have BPD she literally describe the hell I go through

[Hannah-cfuo]

I’m 15, and relate to almost everything in this video. I’m pretty sure I have bpd, But am really afraid to bring it up to my therapist. It’s crazy to know that feeling this way isn’t “normal”. I also struggle with social anxiety, is this related to bpd?

[alexwilliams]

I suffer with eupd so this is really helpful

[alwaysbeeurself]

I get that we can just say personality disorders are people just coping, but this frame of mind only works for those that don't get abused. Once abused, screw that, they are a problem, to disagree means you simply haven't been abused, or not abused bad enough, so then it will be easy to think of this in non-stigmatizing way. Not everyone with a personality disorder are abusive, but many are.