I’ve been diagnosed with bpd for about 3 years. I’ve been very up and down lately. I thought for the past year or so I’ve been getting better at handling my disorder but with school starting up again it has come back full force. 
I’m in my junior year at college. Today in class we did a workshop of a short story I wrote and it was something personal pertaining to my sexuality but I wrote it in a fictional sense using different characters with different genders so I know that the person who said this didn’t think it would effect me this way, but he said something very invalidating about how the events sounded exaggerated and out-dated. And while yes, they were exaggerated because it’s a fiction class, it just really effected me. Maybe I shouldn’t have written about something close to me but I feel like that’s when I create my best work. 
At the end of the workshop when it was my turn to speak I started trying to speak and then just ended up sobbing. I sat in front of a circle of about twenty people (including my professor) and embarrassingly cried for about 3 minutes. It was like something out of a nightmare. My professor was very nice about it and told me if I ever needed to talk to someone I could come see him, and a couple of the girls said the same and hugged me. 
I’m just so embarrassed and I don’t know if I should email everyone apologizing for this? Sometimes I’m so emotional all the time and wrapped up in my disorder that I forget normal functioning people don’t behave like this. 