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Finding Strength in My 'Quiet' Borderline Diagnosis

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My diagnosis is my strength. I was formally diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) a year ago. I say formally because I started having my suspicions a few months before that and it was actually me who very hesitantly brought it up in a session with my therapist.

Talk about taboo—one feels the weight of these words when bringing it up feels like asking—am I a…monster? She told me she had been considering that diagnosis for a while and asked me why I had come to that conclusion, in true therapist fashion (bringing it back to me).

I told her all the research I had done and how it all made sense, everything, from the heavy interest in certain people all the way back in middle school that turned into destructive obsessions, AKA,

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