Hi pals,

I'm a journalist who works for an established media outlet, and I cover sports—baseball primarily. However, I am pretty burned out right now (mid-season) and I want to write about something that isn't just a stick and a ball sometime soon. 

The website I work for is basically all sports, but our parent company also has a women's interest website, and the editor there and I have spoken about me writing a story, and she is supportive. 

I have a BPD diagnosis and would like to write a story involving the illness. I think we all know BPD is under-covered in news media and is usually covered with a pretty bad stigma. 

I've thought about writing about the naming convention of BPD. I spoke with a couple of the researchers who were on the BPD task force for the most recent DSM. 

They told me there was a good amount of debate over the naming of BPD—they felt something like "emotional regulation disorder" was incomplete—and really pushed for furthering the understanding of personality on a spectrum instead of the rigid way they used to look at them. 

But, I figure that could be a little dry! I have also considered just writing a personal essay to describe *how it feels for me* to deal with symptoms of BPD, but am not entirely sold on that, either. 

So I turn to you: If you could read a reported story about BPD, what would you like to see? What subjects/topics relating to BPD do you find interesting and under-covered? Like I said, I know there isn't a lot of mainstream coverage, so I'd like to brainstorm ideas with others, if possible. 

I want to be open because I know it's often difficult to trust people to tell our stories, so I want to do it myself. But to all of you, I'm a stranger! Please let me know if you have any thoughts or feelings, and if you'd like more specifics, feel free to send me a message.

Thanks! 

