I Know They Say I'm Mental : A Personal Perspective on Borderline Personality Disorder

Have you ever tried to explain yourself and had others simply just not get it or, worse, tell you that you are just plain crazy? That was what my life was indeed like due to Borderline Personality Disorder. But I am here to say that the faulty thinking process associated with this mental illness can be overridden and that it is indeed possible to learn how to effectively communicate with others. Through psychoanalysis, medication, and self-discovery of the inner personal negative belief system, the resultant concurrent, depression can be managed and somewhat discarded for more healthy ways of interacting with the outside world. It took me approximately seventeen years of therapy to be able to come to this conclusion, and I would just like the other BPDs to understand and believe that this can also happen for them.