1. Back when I was diagnosed with EUPD in 2005 I did the usual Google thing & found @Quora. I’ve never bothered unsubscribing & I keep getting email bulletins with Q&As from people who detest ‘toxic Borderlines’ and are rampant Royalists. Yet I STILL haven’t unsubscribed >
2. It winds the everlasting f* out of me, I get torn between responding to the worst of the bile & misinformation posted (bad idea: too much energy), to unsubscribe (good idea💡) or to observe occasionally (brave: a step outside my personal social media echo chamber) >
3. It’s also a reminder that even for most of the differences of opinions on Personality Disorder/‘Personality Disorder’/Trauma & it’s treatments, most of the people (clinicians/non-clinicians) taking part in these conversations care enough to do so, whether we agree or disagree>
4. with each other’s beliefs on diagnosis, method of treatment, there seems to be an underlying belief that people are fighting for what is ‘best’ for SUs within their own minds (even if it is re-traumatising/unequal power-level etc). >
5. It’s only when you step outside these conversations and into ones where people with attitudes from the most stigmatised & hate end of the spectrum attitudes (clinicians & non-clinicians) gather that you get that reminder. Most of those people who have really hurt us (SUs) >
6. in services or workplaces aren’t here, they aren’t engaged in these conversations. They don’t care. Do they look? Maybe. But the cognitive dissonance will make it hard, just like me seeing someone talking about ‘the toxic borderline’ makes me feel like I want to be sick. >
7. Somehow seeing the most extreme discrimination and hate speech (some of this is indeed hate speech towards people with a diagnosis) outside of a training room where it can be contained is too much, esp outside working hours. Just wondering what anyone else who has ventured >
8. into such spaces thinks? Aside from despairing at humanity… did it make you wonder about conversations here, how little they are explored or known outside our Twitter algorithm, how the worst discrimination, abuse & hate speech can be addressed?
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