Topic Tuesday Tonight **closed** - BPD: Debunking the myths

@BlueButterfly50 you mentioned in your video that once you looked the symptoms of BPD everything seemed to make more sense and that you could identify with many of the symptoms. For many people this can also feel like a curse. How did you seek treatment, and how you do maintain wellness today?

@Alessandra1992

Yes it is, it is not fair at all. I find explaining to people that it has a biological component to it helps. There is a reason why we have so many issues with emotions and that is because the emotional centre of our brain is highly reactive to criticism and judgement and lots of corrosive neurotransmitters are released from our brain and this makes us feel terrible and out of sorts.

From my observations, people tend to get caught up in the behavioural presentations of BPD, and I think this then gets labelled as a behavioural issue as opposed to a mental health issue. I think people forget that people with a diagnosis of BPD have often had extreme trauma in early childhood, and this deserves our compassion. Similarly drug users experience a moral judgement about their behaviour, rather than seeing it as a symptom of something bigger.

Would others agree?

Yes i would totoally agree, i feel that nerly all of my problems stem from childhood trauma, (pysical abuse from a christian school when i was 7)

People did see it as a behavioural problem, i was diagnosed with ADH, looking back at it now i had Mental health issues then that went undiagnosed. and in hind site may have compounded my problems