My university taught me to stigmatise people with PD's… Then I got diagnosed with one

[Published 4 June 2019 on Wordpress, by livingbeyondtheborderline]

As part of a second year unit on ‘Personality’ we had to learn about Personality Disorders. It was a two hour lecture (which isn’t very long at all to go through 10 distinct disorders, their symptoms, prevlance and treatment options). We spent time exploring the various clusters and possible interventions but the main body of the lecture was an exercise titled

“Imagine a Party Where Everyone Has a Personalty Disorder”