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Hello all! 

This is a new blog meant as a safe space for those of you who have mental illnesses. Please feel free to send me any personal accounts of mental illness, any stories, or questions. Just want to talk? That’s okay, too! 

I will take all possible procedures for making sure this blog stays a safe space. All hateful messages will be deleted and I will block all hateful users. 

Whether you are professionally diagnosed, self-diagnoses, have no idea what’s going on, or are neurotypical with questions about mental illness, you’re welcome here as long as you are respectful of others. 

This blog is still under construction, so it is pretty empty right now, but I was too excited about making this blog to wait until I have everything ready!! 

Please reblog this post to spread the word instead of just liking!

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some of the main traits of Narcissistic Personality Disorder for a lot of people are very high reliance on others for our self-esteem, severe fluctuation between extremes of high and low self-esteem, and attempting to maintain an inflated sense of self-esteem in order to cover feelings of inadequacy or deal with emotional abuse

NPD does not just involve being really conceited all the time

insulting people with NPD to “knock us down a peg” is not helpful and is probably one of the worst things you could possibly do

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hi im making a network for girls, binary or not, with bpd

what it’s for:

making friends with bpd

watching movies

discussing bpd

skype calling or instant messaging each other

requirements:

have bpd (self diagnosed or otherwise)

be a girl (nonbinary girls welcome!)

be anything other than heteroromantic heterosexual

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You're wonderful; thank you. 'just saying :)

Mm, I don't know who you are but thank you. 

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#actuallyhistrionic and #honestlyhistrionic

hey! i don’t see much awareness for histrionic personality disorder in the tumblr community, so i thought i’d make a post about these two cool tags. 

Actuallyhistrionic and honestlyhistrionic are two tags that can be used by people with hpd or people that think they had hpd to connect. you can ask questions, share symptoms, or just post abt ur histrionic feels.

I really hope these tags become places we can all connect and raise awareness for HPD! :3

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How to Care for a Friend with Avoidant Personality Disorder

First things first, try to understand their disorder. Take a few minutes to educate yourself, read the wiki page, figure out what it entails and what they’re suffering with. Find out what their individual symptoms are, because it varies from person to person. Avoidant Personality Disorder in short is a lifelong condition in which a person is incredibly shy and always feels inadequate or not good enough, and it’s an ultrasensitivity to criticism and rejection. Things that you say to other people that would probably be just fine may hurt us because of that ultrasensitivity. Things that aren’t meant as rejections and other people wouldn’t see as rejections feel like rejections. We look too much into everything, body language, where you sit, what you say and what you do and often interpret (incorrectly, usually) that you don’t want us around, and boom, rejection.

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To ASPD questioning anon, consider talking to someone like askasociopath. The purpose of the blog is to answer questions. Obvs they aren't a professional, but they'll lay out the pros and cons for you and can tell you about it from a first-hand point of view.

Yes, http://askasociopath.tumblr.com seems to be a good resource for this!

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Hey, I'm starting to think I might have Anti-Social personality disorder. I apparently have every single symptom, according to my friends anyway. Do you have any suggestions on what to do?

Well, the best thing to do would probably be see a trained professional if you can, maybe mention these symptoms to them. If not that, then try to seek help from someone who has a lot of experience with ASPD.Unfortunately, we're not medical professionals or trained in psychology. We can only speak from our own experiences, but we'll try and guide you down the best path all we can.If any followers have an opinion, you can, as always, chime in as well.~ mod C

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http://www.bpdrecovery.com

I personally find this quite useful/informative. So yk 👍👍

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hi i found ur blog looking through the avoidant pd tag. i'm 14 years old and i've self diagnosed myself with avpd for now, but i would feel a lot more comfortable being professionally diagnosed. the problem is, i don't know where to start. i can't ask my parents and i don't know how to get in touch with a counselor. i only have one friend whom i trust but we're not that close. im also in a leadership class and im starting school pretty awfully. if you have any tips for me i would appreciate them

Hm… A good place to start might be by checking into your school’s counselor. They can’t really diagnose you, but usually they have plenty of resources to help you out. Papers on how to cope with anxiety in particular helped me out a lot back then, and also they don’t have to tell your parents that you’ve been talking to them. (There’s exceptions like if you mention wanting to hurt yourself or another person, so just be aware of that.)

Hopefully you’ll be able to start from there! You could also call into some counselors or counseling centers and see if it’d be possible to have a relative speak on your parent’s behalf and allow you to see someone, depending on your circumstances.

As for school and schoolwork… maybe try motivating yourself to get stuff done by rewarding yourself every time you finish something. Let’s say, every time you’re halfway done with something you can take a short break to do whatever you feel like at the time, or something like that. That way you have some time to recharge, and you’ll get in the mood to just get it over with so you can do what you want without more interruptions.

Anyway, I think I covered everything! I hope this helped a little and if you have any more questions I’ll try my best.

- - Mod V

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I think there's a really important difference between self-diagnosing and reading up on something that makes you think "wow, this sounds like me, I need to get this checked out." I don't support self-diagnosing not only because you could be blatantly wrong without a medical degree, but also because you're more likely to skew how you present yourself to your doctor, friends, etc., to make yourself seem right. It's much more helpful to be honest with a doctor and figure out what is actually wrong.

That's true, but I suppose the saying "You're the only one that knows you best" is true as well.However, America's healthcare system is broken beyond all belief, and sometimes self-diagnosis is the only way some people can get anywhere. Some people don't have insurance and can't afford to shell out thousands of dollars for a diagnosis that might be wrong (Doctors aren't perfect, either). The ACA has alleviated some of this, but it's not doing nearly enough.So while I don't support self-diagnosis in some instances, I can understand completely if someone feels that's what they have to do. However, as soon as they're able, they really should see a doctor.

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ableism is searching “how to cope with borderline personality disorder” and finding “how to escape your psychopath bpd girlfriend and cope with the aftermath” as every! fucking! result!

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I apologize for being a bit slow on posts right now. College just started up for me and I'm going to be a bit busy. I apologize if I take a while on asks too, I'll get to them as soon as I can! On that note, we do have a second mod! They're specialized in stuff related to AVPD, and it's always nice to have more help, because god knows I can't keep up with the blog by myself.

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So I have BPD & I've been passed to lots of different therapist after an only an initial consultation. Research I've done says that therapist don't like dealing with patients with BPD because we struggle with interpersonal relationships. I've got issue but I don't feel like it would be any harder to treat than any other PD or mental condition. I feel like I'm quite high functioning despite my disorder. Just wanted to see if anyone else has similar experiences and/or any advice?

The therapist that diagnosed me was rather okay about it - so I can't say I have much experience. I know medical professionals can be really iffy on issues like BPD, and that's just a really unfortunate fact of seeking help.Followers, do you have any advice here?

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Sociopaths are human beings as well.

We just think very differently. This does not make us sub-human,

Many are misguided in what a sociopath is due to media portrayals. The majority of sociopaths are not in prisons. Many of them are not the extremely violent kind.

They could be anyone. Your best friend, spouse, father, sister, random passerby, etc. 

I encourage people to ask questions or share their experiences with sociopaths so that the condition can be better understood.

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Guys, GUYS, I discovered this neat lifehack for avoidant people (like myself) who have trouble going out places

ok, here it goes

get dressed and ready before you have to start getting ready to go out. 

If you’re like me and wait until the last minute to start getting ready, and you know it can take you up to an hour to put your clothes on, do your makeup and all that fun stuff, and then you start avoiding it and thinking “uuhhh well I can actually do it in half an hour if I’m efficient enough, yeah, sure” - DON’T. DO THAT.

 Because you’ll then say “oh, I only need 15 minutes!”, “oh I can manage in 5 minutes no problem”, and then “shit shit SHIT I SHOULD BE OUT AND I’M ON PYJAMAS FML”.

And we know that’s stressful, unnecessarily so.

So don’t do it.

Instead,  get ready, say, 2 hours before all that. That way you can take your time, and your mind kind of doesn’t relate the actions “getting ready” and “going out”, and you don’t avoid them both.

You just get dressed and whatever you have to do to get ready, and then forget about it and get doing other stuff. The scheduled time of going out will come and you’ll look at the hour and think “I reaaaaally don’t want to go out”. But then you’ll see yourself all pretty and ready and shrug and think “whatever. Might as well”.

This is my advice as a socially phobic person who is trying to get all her avoidance habits on check and learning how to be functional again /thumbs up. 

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This website is like a suicide hotline but with text chat instead.  I would appreciate it if you guys helped spread the word.