Stigma: People with BPD are manipulative.

That pisses me off more than anything.

I totally agree o=with that one!

As this user, Pokkino, said "Ya. We purposely go through what we do just to get what we want." Or along those lines.

I truly wish people could experience what we go through. I think it would humble them.

Yes I just love to feel/do what I fell/do just for the heck of it. If people just felt a tad of what we go through then they might be so quick to judge.

I don't know if this is true for all people with BPD, but mine is accompanied with severe anxiety and panic attacks. That alone is enough to humble anybody.

yea i go through a lot of panic attacks and anxiety kaylabear

Any other stigma besides being manipulative?

I some ER staff veiw us like all we are trying to do is get attion. Like my friend though I was taking overdose of my just becouse. When I really want to die. I did not rember anything that happen the last thing I rember was waking up in a metal ward restain to my bed.
Then the one of the therips told me if I wanted to kill my self that I was smart and I could find a way to do it right.

Ponygirl - who suggested you write this paper?

The NAMI organization has tons if not volumes on the stigma that people with PD suffer. I am sorry but I really believe this is a waste of your time and maybe your social worker just wants to keep you busy.

I work in the healthcare field - they know so much about BPD we have classes on how to "handle", "talk", "judge", "ignore", place limits and boundaries and get rid of people with BPD as fast as possible. There are more police called in the ER for people with BPD than any other disorder or disease. There are more "atlas" called when the medical staff have any indication that the person suffers from BPD and the person may not even be acting out.

Please try to find something much more pleasant to focus on - they receive these papers and throw them away.

I have a professional who is a friend that works at NAMI and they joke about all the sufferers sending in their side of the story. They do not read them either.

Sorry for the bad news but I just wanted to protect you from the hurt that will come by submitting this paper.

froggy0925 - that was insulting but then that is what they do.

There are two ways to really kill yourself is to move to the States of Washington and Oregon and get a doctor to write a note saying you have a terminal illness and then do the "Assisted suicide" "death by dignity". This is the 100% effective way of ending your life.

The other way is to et the textbook that Marsha Lineham wrote and look at the bad pages and she specifically gives you all the information on the most effective ways of taking your life. It is funny because I do not thing she intended for us to read the book but like the social worker told you - you are smart and now I have given a smart person the resources she needs. Good luck.

@ dancinglady. People like that should get out of health care totally. They have no business helping anyone out, mental health or not. I've come across people like you and them time and time again and been told that I'm no use to society. With people like you, your the ones who are really ill, cold hatred and no compassion for the suffering of others. I have other friends who suffer from other illness and I don't like to see them down, I help them as much as I can without burning myself out. I take time to care about them. I share in my groups my problems because it free others to know that they are not alone in what they feel. It's ignorant people like you that fuels the Stigma and distrust of people who suffer from mental health issues. Don't come on here and tell a person on who to better to off themselves. I'll do one better take your own advice and due the world a favor we don't need haters like you in this world, this world has enough already.

Thank you! @ PonyGirl.

I just wrote how I have been trained - these were not my personal opinions. Please do not assume that just because I was trained this way means that I liked the training nor accepted it as a way to handle things.

I just reread what I wrote on my post - how did you get what I said to answer me like that. I was telling everyone how the system works so that no one would get hurt. Do you not want to know what the system thinks - why would you call me a hater when I am trying to inform people. Do you want to go in and get blindsided.

I understand where you coming from pony, i wa strying to think besides "manipulative" and yeah that we are "attention seekers" what else, hrmm.That we all have the same, exact bevahiours we really don't.

I also see where dancing is coming from because that is the reality.

My expereience trying to get help from the "professionals' has been brutal, only one doc helped me.

But he was in private preactise and actually he helped me, but told me tha BPD can not be cured...

However we could learn to cope with the symptoms....

But the NAMI people i saw where bad, another wench i paid 120 was brutal to me without even knowing me at all just on my dx of BPD alone.

Another doc assigned this idiot therapist to me, he also did not know me from adam.But whne the head doctor left the room, he told me i "I don't want to work with you beacuse you have BPD....."

But the asshole did not tell the head doc, he's boss riight??

People are still very ignorant about BPD.Thye do not how to not makes worse, so they just make us worse not better and they they blame it on us.

We can help each other, but we're all adults and some of us have tried just about everything.....

We are all entitled to our opinion.