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This site is great!  I wanted to let you know about my own coming-out movement: I Am 1 in a Million.  Because coming out can be difficult, participants join the movement anonymously, and their identities are only revealed after membership has reached 1,000,000 members--one million people will reveal that they have mental illnesses at the same time. 

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Is it possible for a person who has serious BPD (multiple professional diagonisis) who does not acknowledge there is any problem  to get better? After over 3 decades of dealing with this I am doubtful. This person stops counseling as soon as the BPD diagnosis is stated, and also stops if counselor attempts to deal with it w/o calling it by name. Person states counselor has made a wrong turn, is off base or something equivalent. Does anyone have or know of a silver bul... Read More

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My name is Sarah, I am 30 years old. I am bipolar and BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder), but I don't let the "stigma" of that stop me. I tell EVERYONE I know about it. Not at first though. I tell them after they get to know me and when I do tell them they always say "But you seem so normal!" (All of my friends will gladly tell you I am oddly quirky, but not one of them would have ever fingered me for "acting" like what they thought a person with a "mental illness" would act like.) ... Read More

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Hello, people.  I am a highly functional, normal-seeming person with a spouse, a job, talents, smarts, many interests, a sense of humor, and I've got d.i.d. (formerly known as multiple personality disorder).  I'm pretty much in the closet about it, with the exception of a few carefully-chosen people.  I don't want to freak anyone out. 

In my case, it's just a nifty survival mechanism that saw me through what would otherwise have been unbearable trauma when I was litt... Read More

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