I’ve never told anyone. I was diagnosed about 10 years ago. My sister and my mom know, and they don’t bring up the diagnosis. Instead they focus on how my behavior has changed and how hard I work at being healthy. I really appreciate it, because I’m very afraid of being stigmatized. I have a lot of anxiety about telling an SO, if I ever get close to having one again. I’m afraid that the words “borderline personality disorder” will scare him, whomever this man may be. I told my therapist now the words make it sound like I intersect with psychopaths &amp; sociopaths. I mean, why can’t they change the name to reflect what it really is? “Disorder for the exceptionally traumatized.”