What My BPD Feels Like Mona Lisa Smile In that odd way how there are no coincidences, I felt compelled to add my picture with the Mona Lisa. I Googled why the Mona Lisa is so famous and found this explanation from the Britannica Website, Why Is The Mona Lisa So Famous: The unknown identity…
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Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Anxious – Ambivalent (Preoccupied) Attachment Style & Fear of Abandonment
Jennifer May, PhD – Great DBT Resource on YouTube As I prepare for more focused Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) sessions with my therapist, I found a fantastic DBT resource on YouTube – Jennifer May, PhD. She has a DBT video for every part of the intensive therapy, as well as many other helpful videos such…
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Gratitude For A Wild & Crazy Life
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…
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 – The Pros and Cons of Medical THC & CBD
Open License to Find My Own Dosage In the spring of 2020, while living in British Columbia, I began taking medically prescribed CBD for anxiety. I had open license – at a significant financial cost as medically prescribed THC and CBD is not covered under my insurance plan – to legally buy high quality THC…
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…