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Originally Posted by cryingontheinside
Hi everyone. I watch alot of real life crime programmes where by the fbi solve a murder. On quite a few accasions they have described the murderer as having bpd and the way they genrelize the charactor of bpd is really negative. I am not violent or abusive to others
If i get angry i turn my anger inwards and harm myself or attemp to take my life. I know that most people with bpd hurt them selves and not others. Im really upset with the stigma and false representation. Also on this site someone with bp was complaining that some people confused her with havinh bpd and it made me feel that we are even stigmatised by people with a different mental health diagnoses. How do you all feel about it? Have you noticed a stigma for bpd in particular as apose to other diagnoses and does it upset you?
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Hey ! Yes, I've watched pretty much every episode of The FBI Files (if that's what you're talking about) and many other crime shows on Investigation Discovery, and yes, I agree - borderlines are cast in a bad light.
About stigma, I think there's stigma associated with pretty much any mental illness (perhaps except for PTSD type Vietnam ... because soldiers are respected), and the root cause for that is IGNORANCE.
It has pissed me off in the past, when I had hopes of a life. Now that I have given up on life, it doesn't piss me off at all
When someone doesn't even want to take the trouble to understand our illness, how the hell are they ever going to respect us ? Their minds are made up, and they don't need to know or care about our problems, so stigma will prevail.