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19 SIGNS YOU GREW UP WITH BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a highly stigmatized and poorly understood mental illness that affects approximately 14 million Americans, or 5.9% of adults in the United States. dismiss these early signs as "bad behavior" or "adolescent anxiety" when in reality the person is really in trouble. To find out how people knew (in hindsight) that they had borderline personality disorder, we asked people who live with him in our community to share what it was like to grow up with a personality disorder. borderline undiagnosed, or perhaps not yet developed. . Here's what they had to say: 1. “Since I can remember, even in my first year, I have always been extremely sensitive to everything. I remember that I would always feel different and really alone… Looking back, it really happened around the age of 14. . I am now 20 years old and have mastered certain aspects, but it is always a battle that I fight everyday. "- Julia F. 2. “Impulsiveness, reckl...

3 things trying to conceive taught me about my wife + marriage

Before my wife and I were married, we loved to talk about our future children. We would talk about how many kids we were going to have, what their personalities would be like, and what they’d grow up to become. But we never really focused on what our marriage was going to look like when we had kids—we kind of figured it out along the way. Now, looking back, I realize that I’ve learned a thing or two about myself, my wife and our life together while we were trying to conceive. 1. I learned to cherish the time we had together, before baby... It’s so easy to get caught up in baby fever that we forget to nurture and cherish our marriage while we’re in the “trying to conceive” stage. When we were going through it, my wife and I realized that our marriage was never going to be the same. It was no longer going to be the two of us exploring the world. Instead, it was going to be a whole new adventure—our family growing up together and taking on the world as a team. Wit...

Stigma is holding back fight against Aids in Eastern Europe, warns David Furnish

David Furnish, Aids campaigner and husband of Sir Elton John, has condemned the homophobia and stigma that is hampering the control of HIV in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Mr Furnish, chairman of the Elton John Aids Foundation, was speaking to the Telegraph as the foundation, in partnership with drug company Gilead, launched a $25 million, five-year initiative to fight the disease in Eastern Europe and Central Asia – the only region in the world where the number of new HIV infections is going up. Mr Furnish, a film producer, said gay people in the region suffered “tremendous stigma”. “The former Iron Curtain countries are still suffering from homophobia - it’s a hangover from Soviet occupation. “Homophobia makes it much worse for people with HIV and Aids. No one wants to go for an Aids test or pick up Aids medication if they’re terrified and live in fear of being stuck with a label,” he said. "These attitudes pervade around this region - it's what ca...