Shallow, Changeable Emotions What does it mean to have shallow, changeable emotions? Basically, it is to be quick to anger or tears, but not a lot of complex emotions underneath. The emotions seem immature and superficial. I know how this feels. Describing it is the challenge. Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a flooding of a…
Tag: Owning Histrionic Personality Disorder
Living With Histrionic Personality Disorder – Introduction & Symptoms & Diagnostic Criteria
Books About HPD Are Scarce There seems to very few books published specifically about Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD). When I search on the internet for HPD books, the selection quickly transitions to personality disorders and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Hopefully, as I develop this series on what living with HPD is like, I can be…
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Coping With The Inner Critic
That Inner Critic Everyone has an Inner Critic. What does my Inner Critic say? She says things like: People are mad at you. People do not like you. I am in trouble. I have done something wrong. Other people are right and I am wrong – I must defer. I must defer to those who…
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…