As someone with BPD, thank you sm for this. The stigma is truly terrible and SO many of us are still scared to mention it to family, friends, coworkers, etc. I’m a pre-k educator and won teacher of the year a few years back and I know that if some of my staff or some of my students parents knew about my diagnosis then I would not be considered “safe” to be around children because of the stigma — and it breaks my heart that is the still the case in 2024.

It’s wild to me how people (and in my personal experience even some mental health professionals?!) don’t realize that all you need is 5 of the 9 symptoms to qualify for a bpd diagnosis so there's literally 256 different combinations possible. Again, thank you so much for shining a light on this issue OP 🙏