"I have had mental health problems for nine years now, nine whole years of misery, unbearable intolerable emotional pain, and frustration - but not forgetting tiny spurts and sprouts of hope and semi-happiness amongst all this. When I was first diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder I felt angry. I felt it was a label – a label they give to awkward patients who don’t respond so they can blame the patient for not getting better rather then the treatment not working. I felt it was like they were saying my personality was essentially flawed and it challenged my very sense of self and being. However I’ve done a lot of reading about BPD and even had a few articles published by Mind, Rethink and One in Four Magazine and now I can completely understand why I was given the diagnosis. I am passionate about fighting and ending the stigma and discrimination attached to mental illness. I did some volunteering on the Time to Change campaign last year and I also do some sessions from time to time teaching medical students about mental health.
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Here at the Emergence office we regularly hear stories which are heartbreaking in the extreme, but also, it is true to say, they are also often uplifting. Since the launch of our website in November 2010 we have wondered how we might be able to share these experiences in a positive way. All the stories we hear have a number of things in common - they are not only the very source of inspiration behind what we do here at Emergence, and why we do it, but they also provide all of us affected by personality disorder with support, advice and inspiration. If you have an experience or story you would like to share, please do get in touch with This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it To help you write your story, please read our Submission Guidelines - we hope you find them helpful! |
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