My Mom told me that she knows she was depressed when she was younger, but she had some therapy and 'got over it'. Everyone thinks I'm just going to 'get over' my mental illness. She constantly questions the fact that I take medication and thinks I don't need it.

I made a joke about being mentally ill (because I have dark humor), and my Dad told me I'm not mentally ill in a tone that, to me, said that he was disgusted. No one in my family knows of the BPD diagnosis, but my Dad is the only one that knows about my SI. I told him about it and he hasn't said a word about it since. That's a little invalidating. I wish I hadn't told him.

Boo to invalidation!!