Topic Tuesday // BPD Awareness featuring SPECTRUM VIC // Tues 1 Oct, 7pm AEST

Sorry to hear this @Fracturedlight A few of our members can definitely relate to that feeling. There are really genuinely engaged and caring practitioners out there, don't give up hope - you are worthy of support

@AndrewSpectrum

Im embarrassed and ashamed to tell people I have BPD.

I just don’t tell them. I leave it out.

@roses1 Yes, personality disorder often has unhelpful connotations, like 'flawed personality.' I've also found that, for some, complex ptsd doesn't resonate as they can't always identify with a 'trauma' having occurred.

@BlueBay Thank you for being so honest and real about this. The shame is common, but so very misplaced. BPD comes with some wonderful skills and traits, high levels of empathy and compassion, the ability to truly hear people, a really broad emotional bandwidth There's no judgement or shame here with us @BlueBay 🙂 Thank you for sharing this.

@JulianSpectrum your last comment resonates for my wife.

(I support my wife who lives with BPD)

I've found it relieving and validating as I had spent a lot of time trying to distance myself from my emotions and ending up in a kind of permanent state of confusion. I also had had a hard time trying to describe a lot of things that I felt so having some context has helped.

It has also been confronting, but that's more about me coming to terms with my feelings and fears.

@Fracturedlight So sorry to hear this. Trust is something that can be so hard to earn, and can feel devastating to lose.Is it the sort of thing you could bring up with them?

@JulianSpectrum I was told that CPTSD and BPD were two different things, not interchangeable. I was told you can have one, the other, or both but they are different things.