Borderline Personality Disorder: Is Your Therapist Dogged by a Dark Side?
At my last therapy session my therapist turned into a savage rottweiler; baring her sharp teeth at me, picking me up by the scruff of my neck and shaking the living daylights out of me. The doggone...
View ArticleBPD: Narcissistic Injuries, Madness and Mindfulness
When you suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder (or complex trauma) one person’s constructive criticism or negative response is another person’s life-threatening narcissistic injury. I received a...
View ArticleBorderline Personality Disorder: Self-esteem vs Self Destruction
There is a saying in a self-help group I used to be in back in the eighties. When a “normal” person gets a flat tire, they call the Automobile Association. When someone with (what’s now known as BPD)...
View ArticleBorderline Personality Disorder: Social Survival Skills
Borderline Personality Disorder is not just about mental illness and emotional distress, it is also about social skills (or lack of them), empathy, manners, conflict resolution and self-care. Most...
View ArticleBorderline Personality Disorder: Mental Cramps and Diarrhea
Sometimes, I catch myself having fierce arguments in my head with people I have never met, about situations that have not happened, followed by resolutions that are never satisfying. My headspace is...
View ArticleBorderline Personality Disorder: Good Will Hugging
I was surprised to find “Good Will Hunting” on our DVD recorded movies list. Apparently my oldest son, Matt recorded it thinking it was about guns. A great movie, and it was the bit at the end that...
View ArticleBorderline Personality Disorder: Google-Stalking Your Therapist
Is Google-stalking your therapist morally wrong, a self defeating masochistic exercise in futility, considered Borderline Personality Disordered behaviour or worse, or downright creepy, dangerous and...
View ArticleSupport Groups for People Diagnosed with BPD
It’s been a long time since my last blog because I felt I had run out of things to say about BPD. However, since working in peer support work for the past year with a caseload that comprises of 75%...
View ArticleBorderline Personality Disorder: Healing in Bali
The difference between my young Borderline self and my older, somewhat wiser Borderline self is that I may still have the same intense feelings of rage, paranoia and injustice, but I now sit in those...
View ArticleBorderline Personality Disorder: Naked Therapy
When you go to your therapy session what do you wear and why do you wear it and what does it mean to you? Many years ago I would spend a week deciding what to wear. Should I wear this skirt because it...
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