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 –…
Tag: Owning Histrionic Personality Disorder
Living With BPD & HPD – 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 – 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…
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Bits On Biosocial Theory & Intense Emotions
Searching For Authentic Self This week my therapeutic journey has been focusing on authentic self and mindfulness. Authentic self is something I’ve been searching for, for as far back as I can remember. In my early twenties, I remember searching out ways to get to know who I am, and find where I fit into…
Living With BPD & HPD – Rambling Through Confusion Towards Clarity
Confusion & Clarity It is Day 11 since my diagnosis. I don’t know how long I will keep track of how many days I’m into my diagnosis. For me, this feels like a way of tracking my processing. I am reading Borderline Personality Disorder for Dummies by Charles H. Elliott & Laura L. Smith. This…
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Introduction to Symptoms & Causes
Mixed Emotions and Foggy Brain I’m 6 days into my diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD). As of right now, it seems my therapist is focusing on BPD. I do not know very much about HPD, yet. I’ve the good fortune of a Monday snow day, turning the regular 2-day…
Forget Everything I’ve Said – I’ve Borderline Personality Disorder & Histrionic Personality Disorder
The Beginning of a New Journey February 9th, 2022. Diagnosis day, again. Last diagnosis days were over 20 years ago. This included four different diagnosis by experts – four different opinions on why I was the way I was. I’m over 20 years of living with a brain I somehow knew wasn’t operating properly. As…