What hurt the most was reading BPD book reviews that called people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) “cancer,” “malicious,” “unlovable,” “damaging to others,” and the worst one, someone to “rid from your life forever.” It devastated me to think that I was any one of these things to the people I loved.I was misdiagnosed with depression at 14.
For 10 years, I took anti-depressants to try and combat the depression. Nothing seemed to really help. Finally, I became so medicated that I could not feel anything at all.
My whole life people have called me “overly sensitive,” “dramatic,” “irrational,” etc. I didn’t understand why other people did not feel these emotions as deeply as I did.
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