I was diagnosed with BPD in November 2019.

I hide my diagnosis from people that I think should know about it - mostly because I have convinced myself that anyone who knows about my diagnosis will not want to be around me anymore or will think that I am like the people you see on trial on Court TV who get diagnosed with personality disorders.

It took me 2 years to tell my fiancé that I had BPD. I am very close with and live with his family but they don't know I have BPD. Lately, my MIL has been watching a lot of Court TV and noticing people who she says have been diagnosed with BPD (Heard / Brooks / Dahmer). I really want to tell her that I have BPD and my fiance thinks it's time for me to as well because every time she talks to me about the people she sees on TV having it, I feel really upset. I have had so many opportunities to tell her but I can't get the words to come out of my mouth. 

He offered to tell her for me but I asked him not to. I said it is my thing to share and he agreed.

I don't want to succumb to the stigma anymore. I want to be unashamed of my BPD.

Does anyone have any advice about starting the conversation of saying "yes, I have BPD"?