[Don't] Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health

by Kelly Jensen

With the new diagnosis, I started researching everything I could about BPD. Most of what I found was extremely disparaging: I remember reading somewhere that people who have BPD fall between annoying and crazy and dangerous. I also read that those with BPD were broken down into types, and one group was witch/warlock. I found a Facebook post in which a woman said that she would rather work with ten people with schizophrenia than one person with BPD. I fell into a spiral of negativity. The information I found, compounded with the ever-present impostor syndrome, fed into what I’ve been good at doing for so long: treating myself like shit.