I’m just recently coming to the realization that I over share my personal information and stories. I always just viewed it as being an open person. It’s not common for me to get the “tmi” response from people. 

The other day I was speaking to my new therapist. She asked me what me and my brothers relationship was like. I started to get in to a story and she stopped me immediately. She said we hardly know each other and it’s inappropriate to share details of my life like that with her since we hardly know each other. I can’t stop thinking about it. I feel so stupid. And now I’m looking back at every story I’ve shared with friends and coworkers about nothing serious like trauma, but details about how my date went or situations that have happened to me that others wouldn’t share because they’d be too embarrassed. A lot of times, these weird stories I tell, usually about me being awkward or getting in to some sort of exaggerated Seinfeld situation make people laugh but then it’s quickly followed by “oh my gosh! Too much information! Lol” but it makes me feel good to make them laugh and be outlandish. I realize I’m sort of talking about two separate things here but it all ties in to over sharing. 
Last week I tried setting a boundary with my brother. He text me something I didn’t like so I went in to explaining why I am setting this boundary. It was a really long text and was quite personal. I was very open in sharing every detail. It’s hard to talk to him on the phone about these things because we have a time zone difference and our schedules don’t ever allow it. So his response was supportive but he was like, I didn’t need to know that. You could have avoided telling me the story and just set the boundary. So now I feel like an idiot. I keep thinking in my head about how I could have worded it without telling the story so I can do better next time. 

Is being too open with people and over sharing private information related to BPD? Does anyone else do this?

Thank you for reading and hopefully this post makes sense since I’m tired but can’t sleep. 😌