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View submission: Ever been scapegoated with a mental health condition you didn't even have?
Yes! I was misdiagnosed with BPD as a teenager and my reputation in my family never recovered.
They all witnessed at least some of the abuse I faced, and 1/2 of the family have shared a house with my nuclear family at one point. Everyone knows I was abused badly, but somehow that BPD misdiagnosis as a teenager means I'm just dramatic and need to forgive in order to heal. (Reality is when I stopped trying to forgive things got easier for me, and I'm at a point now where flashbacks aren't a daily or even weekly thing. I don't need a relationship with my abusers to be happy or to heal.)
There's nothing here!