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Originally posted by catalyst:
Telling someone I'm suicidal whether I have DDNOS, CPTSD, anorexia, major depression, anxiety or a billion damn other things I could have... Is still me telling someone I'm suicidal. Spade = spade. My actions speak, my thoughts speak. Whatever someone thinks the reason is doesn't matter as long as I can get the resources I need.

I couldn't agree more - the issue being in my case is it did not lead to me getting any support
Or the resources I needed. If I had, it wouldn't have been a problem at all.

I do want to reiterate I do NOT have any issues or prejudice against people who have happen to have BPD. One of my former best friends did have BPD and we had a wonderful friendship. She was incredibly intelligent and our favourite thing to do was watch crime shows in our own homes but talk to each other at very advert break as to how the plot was going to pain out. I miss her and those calls (she died with medical complications due to her severe obesity)

GG - I hope you don't think I'm criticising you in any way? Or that I'm judging you in any way. What label you might or might not have had or have doesn't reduce my feeling supportive of you or wanting to help support you. I was merely expressing my hatred of that label given to ME, because of the trauma it caused me. The 'treatment' I experienced still greatly affects me 20 plus years later. How I work with my current T is impacted by what happened back then. It came again today also - I was worried she would think my dissociating in her office was 'attention seeking' and how I was so afraid she'd force me out of her office in an unsafe state, getting rid of me like a piece of garbage to be swept out.

I hope no one think I'm dissing them or being critical of anyone on here just because they might or might it have BPD or any other label. I just hope it can be UNDERSTOOD, this issue caused me a tremendous amount of distress and trauma over the years it happened to me. It's my truth; it happened. I'm glad if it doesn't still happen today or if others haven't been treated that way, because NO ONE deserves to have their very real distress dismissed, ignored, or treatment withheld from them. For me, it isn't as simple as saying 'oh well just get over it it's just a label' - that would be like telling someone who had experienced another form of trauma ''get over it it doesn't matter'