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I thought someone was watching me through my window. I closed my blinds, turned my lights off and locked my bedroom door. I dragged my laundry basket in front of my door to barricade it as if that would suffice. I then thought I needed to decipher a numerical code and began texting some random numbers to my friends, frantically …

One comment can ruin my day and set off a mental process that’s self-destructive. I am a reactive person, it doesn’t take much to do. How can I go from sitting in class or in an office, content, productive, feeling well, to the next moment feeling deeply offended, feeling horribly insecure and feeling compelled to act in an unskilled way? …

About a year ago, I started experiencing horrible chronic fatigue. I tried to examine every possible cause. Was I getting enough sleep? Giving myself enough downtime during the day? Taking breaks between work and school projects? Did I need more coffee? Was I eating a healthy enough diet? Did I need more exercise? I went down the checklist of possibilities …

What is “splitting”? According to Mighty contributor Sarah Cooper, who lives with borderline personality disorder (BPD), Splitting is a coping defense mechanism people with BPD use to avoid rejection or being hurt. It means that someone is either good or they are bad. There are no good people who make mistakes. There are no bad people who are nice sometimes. It …

If you live with borderline personality disorder (BPD), you might be familiar with the classic symptom of “splitting,” also known as black-and-white thinking. People who “split” often have difficulty integrating positive and negative qualities of people or situations — causing them to think in extremes (i.e. I’m all bad or all good, or They love me or they’re out to get me). Splitting can …

When I was first diagnosed correctly with borderline personality disorder (BPD), I was 27 or 28 years old. I had spent years in and out of psychiatrist and psychologist offices. I had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, severe depression,anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder general anxiety disorder and a number of other disorders that didn’t quite fit the bill. This is …

I used to wonder why it is called borderline personality disorder (BPD). That is until my symptoms got worse, and I had to find the answer the worst possible way. It literally feels like you’re standing on the borderline of emotional and mental instability. Some days, you struggle to make sure you’re still “sane.” Other days, it feels like you’re …

Living with a mental health condition can mean keeping a lot of secrets. Not necessarily because you want to keep them, but I’ve generally found people often don’t want to know about what they don’t understand — what is not perceived as “normal” behavior. Try, for example, answering someone who asks how you are with “I am having an excruciating week because …

The way to love anyone is to love them truly and with your whole heart. In order to truly love someone, you have to accept them for who they are. You have to accept their shortcomings, their successes, their bad habits and their humor. When loving someone with borderline personality disorder (BPD), acceptance is one of the most important things about …

The world is constantly split in the eyes of someone like me who has borderline personality disorder (BPD). We only see things in extremes, one end of the spectrum or the other, black or white with no other shades in between. Everything is polarized. I’m high or I’m low; you love me, or you hate me.  The time it takes to travel …

Fellow Mama, I see you lying there in bed, trying to will yourself to get up. I know some part of you might wish you hadn’t woken up this morning – that you could fade away into nothingness because it seems a hell of a lot better than dealing with the demons you fight off daily in your head. I …

How can you not understand what you do to me? Are you really so blind every time you completely destroy me Remember when all I wanted to do was run away from you As you turned your back ignoring me, basically saying fuck you. How would you feel if every second you wanted to die And the only person you …

This piece was written by Bria Barrows, a Thought Catalog contributor I know this is an extremely sensitive topic, but it is one that needs to be discussed. Because I know for a fact that at one point in our lives, we have been suicidal or have known someone struggling with these thoughts. One in five people struggle with mental health issues. That means …

During an intimate conversation on comedian Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast, “Saturday Night Live” cast member Pete Davidson revealed he had been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) — an often misunderstood disorder that affects your mood, relationships and how you see the world. Davidson had some genuine (and some funny) things to say about what it’s like living with BPD, from how he’s …

“I had no idea I’d try to take my own life in the morning.” This is what Milly Smith, who runs the popular Instagram account selfloveclubb, wrote beneath a photo that was taken seven hours before she attempted suicide. Although this might be surprising to some, Smith lives with borderline personality disorder, which she explains, “means that my mood can switch …