The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names
In this blog I reflect upon my mental health diagnosis'; and the recent revelation that I am not a 'little bit bipolar' any more – and perhaps I never was? How I feel now that my 'confirmed' diagnosis is emotionally unstable personality disorder/ borderline personality disorder (EUPD/BPD) and what that means to me. I hadn't intended to publish it on World Mental Health Day but I think its timely that it is. It may be triggering... In my ‘first ever’ blog I touched upon being informed in my appointment with a psychiatrist (I can’t say ‘my’ psychiatrist given that we will probably only have another 1 or 2 meetings plus we aren’t in America) that my diagnosis of cyclothymia had gone in the bin in 2016, replaced with emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD). EUPD is also known as borderline personality disorder (BPD) and borderline personality disorder is known in the World Health Organisation classification (ICD-10) as Emotionally unstable personalit...