Hi friends,

As some of you may be aware, there exists a particularly upsetting subreddit that says a lot of brutal things about Borderlines. I don't recommend visiting this subreddit whatsoever, but I know morbid curiousity gets the best of me too sometimes. There are 9 symptoms of BPD in the DSM, and you need to have at least 5. **This means there are 256 different combinations of BPD.** The individuals they speak about on that subreddit do NOT reflect your own unique presentation of BPD. They are nothing like you, and nothing they have to say about Borderlines will ever apply to you. Besides that, a concerning amount of people on that subreddit are talking about people who don't even have an official BPD diagnosis. It's rude and inappropriate. If they knew anything about what causes BPD, they would not waste their mental energy victimizing themselves on the internet. This is the first thing a therapist would go through with them if they brought up their concerns in a professional setting, but these are immature people who would rather scream into an echo chamber.

You are a complex human not defined by a disorder, or what others have to say about their anecdotal experience with someone who may or may not even have BPD.