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I have borderline personality disorder. This is what I want you to know.

Posted on July 3, 2025July 14, 2025 by Ellen Eldridge

“Run. Away. Screaming.” That’s what I told Russell when we started dating in early 2008. Now, we’re married with two teenagers. I’ve been trying to make sense of the first thirty years of my life for the last fifteen. People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are among the most suicidal and toughest clients to counsel….

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Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship: school-based mental health

Posted on September 21, 2023November 20, 2025 by Ellen Eldridge

I was selected in 2021-22 to report on how schools are coping with students returning to in-person learning among an ongoing pandemic and rising reports of mental illness. The pandemic left many of us isolated and literally alone. Social distancing kept us communicating over social media and many of us suffer(ed) Zoom fatigue. I first…

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