If I Could Go Back and Do My Life Over Again… Would I? I think most adults have either had this thought or been asked this question. Recently, while eating my morning snack in the staff room, a teacher asked me if I would go back and do my life over again. I started to…
Tag: Borderline Personality Disorder and Finding Synthesis Between Opposites
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder & Histrionic Personality Disorder – Amber Heard VS Johnny Depp
Anger From The Amber Heard & Johnny Depp Mudslinging Trial I can’t even really type this without filling with anger. All I know is that, according to the news, Johnny Depp hired a psychiatrist to determine Amber Heard’s state of mind – her state of mind being she has Borderline Personality Disorder and Histrionic Personality…
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Starting EMDR – Creating New Pathways To Calm
EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing I’m not spending a lot of time explaining how Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) specifically works. My reasoning for this is that I can focus too much on intellectualizing a process rather than letting the process happen. For me, this can be an avoidance tactic rather than diving…
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Is This Effective & Willing Hands Half Smile & The Middle Path
Is This Effective? Ideas for practicing effectiveness is a Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) mindfulness technique from DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets, Second Edition, by Marsha M. Linehan. There is a step-by-step process outlined in the above mentioned worksheets that, as I applied it, truly helped me begin to observe my intense anger and hostility –…
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder & Histrionic Personality Disorder – The Stigma & Social Pariah Of Personality Disorders
Physical Diseases – More Socially Accepted Than Mental Illnesses I first want to say I do not mean to diminish the life changing journey anyone has to face when diagnosed with a serious physical disease, such as ALS, that tragically kills people. When someone is diagnosed with a physical disease – most family and friends…
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Overlapping Symptoms & What Type Of & How BPD Am I?
Overlapping Symtoms Diagnosing BPD can be quite challenging as its symptoms overlap the symptoms of other mental health disorders like: As well, BPD symptoms overlap the symptoms of neurodivergent minds like: For many years, I was misdiagnosed with PTSD, DDNOS and ADHD. CPTSD was even put on the table, just before my appropriate diagnosis of…
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Empathic Abilities & Intentional Interventions
Feeling The World Having BPD means I emotionally feel the world much more intensity than the general population. To me, this is a super power and a curse. Before I was properly diagnosed, I did not know what was causing my over-the-top emotional reactions to the world. I felt cursed as I could not understand…
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Not PTSD – It’s Emotions – Borderline Style
Not PTSD I have spent the last two decades scared to death that something hidden in my memory was the reason my body floods with fear when “triggered” by specific and/or not so identifiable situations. I could not understand or link the intense emotions to the PTSD Flashback symptom of feeling like I was back…