I’ve been with my partner for 5 years now and known his family for just as long. His Dad and Step Mum are psychiatric nurses and refuse to believe I have BPD when I’ve been diagnosed by multiple psychiatrists.

They keep telling me “there’s no way you are borderline!” “The borderline girls I’ve seen at work are just horrible and you’re not like that” 

I don’t know how to feel about it, I feel kind of complimented, insulted and invalidated at the same time. I am quite high functioning, but they’ve not seen me at my worst, they never would, because I don’t leave the house or have anyone over when I’m going through a bad time. They don’t know anything about what I go through.