Hey all,
I’m looking for a community on PieFed or Lemmy that specialises in supporting or discussing personality disorders.
I’ve recently been looking more into Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), and have a heavy suspicion that it’s something I suffer from. While I of course will be talking with my doctor about this, I was also wondering if there’s any communities where there’s crowd-based support just to remind myself to keep working on it and hold myself accountable in improving.
I found !bpd@sh.itjust.works and !bpd@lemmy.world
They are not very active, but the first one have a recent post. I think you can post in the mental health community and find support and tools too. There may are others communities.I encourage you to take BPD diagnosis with a grain of salt, and to be careful about it, depending on where you live. While it can be helpful, it can be a heavily stigmatized diagnosis too, even by health professionals.
Thanks, I’m keeping that in mind.
I had a doctor at the hospital few years ago tell me she thought it was likely I had BPD, but she wasn’t able to give me a diagnosis I believe because at the time I was exploring whether I had autism and/or ADHD. While I did end up getting diagnosed by a psychologist for both, I’m starting to wonder if it was a misdiagnosis the more I read into BPD, and how much it feels like a hammer hitting a nail on the head.
I remember looking into it at the hospital and seeing the things people online would say of BPD, and it destroyed my mental well-being the next day or so before I saw the doctor again. I’ve always feared becoming my father, and reading about all the abuse people have had at the hands of people with BPD, and how universally hated people with it seemed to be, it was like I was hit by a car.
She thankfully told me there’s people that get diagnosed who take out their emotions on the rest of world, which is what you hear of so often, and those that turn that inward, and constantly beat themselves up, which is more my experience. At least, that’s what I hope is true seeing that I question and doubt myself so often.
There is awful stuff about BPD online. I received diagnosis of BPD and schizophrenia so I know a little about people saying I don’t belong to society, but it’s only with BPD I found communities telling how monstrous we are. If you recognize yourself in BDP, you are not doomed to be how others describe borderlines. A diagnosis is not a life sentence.
Did you do some research about trauma too?
- !personalitydisorders@lemmy.world
- !schizoidpd@lemmy.world
- !bpdsongs@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- !bpdlovedones@lemmy.world
- !autbpd@lemmy.world
adding some other mental health communities
- !bipolardisorder@lemmy.world
- !bipolar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- !autism@lemmy.world
- !depression_now@lemmy.world
- !depression@lemmings.world
- !socialanxiety@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- !anxiety@lemmy.world
- !adhd@lemmy.world
- !adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- !autisticandadhd@lemmy.world
- !adhdwomen@lemmy.world
- !adhdmemes@lemmy.world
- !mentalhealth@hexbear.net
- !mentalhealth@lemmy.world
- !mentalhealth@lemmy.ml
- !mensmentalhealth@lemmy.world
Thanks for the help.
Would like to point out though that the BPDlovedones community shared is for those who have faced abuse by those with BPD. While people deserve to have their own spaces to talk about those experiences, they don’t tend to welcome those who have BPD, and seeing that kind of content can feel stigmatising when you don’t engage in the behaviours they’ve been a victim of.
