Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Unstable & Fragile Identities

Identity Problems and BPD From Chapter 7, page 99 of Borderline Personality for Dummies: Those who suffer from BPD often have the feeling that they’ve lost their identity. Unlike those who’ve lost their financial or online identity, people with BPD have lost something dearer and more fundamental. They lack a sense of who they are…

Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – DBT Skills Need Time & Everyday Practice To Become A Part Of Me

Healing Takes Time In a recent therapy session, I spoke of feeling overwhelmed with the many Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) skills taught to help those with BPD navigate life with better success. My therapist reassured me I am still relatively new to adjusting with my BPD diagnoses, and it will take some time to settle…

Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – The Hulk Uses Dialectical Behaviour Therapy

The Hulk Uses Dialectical Behaviour Therapy On Marvel’s new She Hulk Attorney at Law, Hulk is teaching his newly transformed She Hulk cousin Jennifer Walters how to emotionally regulate using Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). DBT is a real therapy created by Marsha Linehan for those like myself with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Hulk’s way of…

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 – 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 –…