It's easy to ask a person dealing with personality disorders to "find a community who loves you and calls you out on your bs", but it's just that, easy to say.
Finding the supposed community is literally sisyphean when they look at you wrong for dealing with constant overwhelm and exhaustion
I agree! The stigma and outright hostility toward people with personality disorders is immense. And therapy rarely offers them true acceptance either, considering so many therapists are overtly trained to view those of us with PD traits as evil or unfixable.
Hi Devon -- I'm a journalist working on a story for The Cut about people who've decided to stop going to therapy. I loved the insights you shared here -- though I couldn't 100% tell if you'd decided to stop therapy? If so, I'd love to speak with you about that for the piece. (Totally fine to be anonymous if you prefer.)
If you're interested, you can reply here or email me at melissadahl at gmail dot com
It's easy to ask a person dealing with personality disorders to "find a community who loves you and calls you out on your bs", but it's just that, easy to say.
Finding the supposed community is literally sisyphean when they look at you wrong for dealing with constant overwhelm and exhaustion
I agree! The stigma and outright hostility toward people with personality disorders is immense. And therapy rarely offers them true acceptance either, considering so many therapists are overtly trained to view those of us with PD traits as evil or unfixable.
Hi Devon -- I'm a journalist working on a story for The Cut about people who've decided to stop going to therapy. I loved the insights you shared here -- though I couldn't 100% tell if you'd decided to stop therapy? If so, I'd love to speak with you about that for the piece. (Totally fine to be anonymous if you prefer.)
If you're interested, you can reply here or email me at melissadahl at gmail dot com
Thanks!
This is so right!🙏