I wish that people would understand that dealing with borderline is just as serious as dealing with a chronic physical illness. While those with cancer and immune disorders and fibromyalgia are given support ribbons and referred to as warriors and survivors, those of us with BPD are monsters, evil, and undesirable. Instead of eliciting sympathy and compassion, borderlines are shunned. If only those on the outside could understand the deep emotional and (in my case at least) physical pain that goes with this disease maybe the pejorative associations could end and we could be regarded as warriors and survivors who have fought and survived this terrible disease. 

Am I hoping for too much? 