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Old Oct 10, 2012, 07:19 PM
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I can certainly relate to that...

Only last week, I decided to tell my brother, the first in the family to know, about my desire to seek a DX for BPD. His partner guides autistic kids and has a psych cert so I felt they were the ideal people to approach with this, as I also had to consider a cultural distaste in my community at large for mental illness, in addition to disdain in general...

I was treated by the two of them the exact same way Maranara describes -- dismissively and flippantly, as someone who wanted justification for bad behavior, rather than answers and guidance. It was humiliating, and I knew at that point it was going to be a trigger... after all, I'd hadn't meaningfully interacted with him for some time, and perhaps my BPD had assumed a rapport that hadn't existed in years. I left the building and went home before the anger and frustration began to build...

So it is prudent to keep things on a need-to-know basis. I feel if my circle doesn't have specific training on how to interact with you once they're aware of it... that it can lead to more interpersonal friction than acceptance. Keep it in a community who 1) has knowledge/training or 2) can guide you to knowledge/training.
Thanks for this!
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