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My life right now… Well, right now I am very happy - the best I have felt in years. I love talking to people about mental health and campaigning against stigma. I am going to college twice a week and am getting on well with the tasks, my classmates and the homework (well, just about ……Continue reading World Mental Health Awareness Day Wednesday 10 October 2012 sharing my recovery and my life right now As you will know I tend to write upbeat or informative articles, and I certainly do not have a ‘woe is me’ attitude, but today I am going to have to be a little negative - firstly, towards the mental health sector of the NHS (not the whole NHS service, of which I have had Ok it’s not quite but the 20th August will nearly be three months since I launched my memoir as an e-book ‘My Alien Self: My Journey Back to Me’ I have been through quite a bit of stress this last week, and still am, so I am doing this for two reasons – mostly (honestly) ……Continue reading My Alien Self My Journey Back to Me is FREE e-book from Monday 20th August 2012 for 5 days to help mental illness stigma! Social networking and personal blogs are a valid addition to the world of mental illness and mental health. Not only do professionals share their knowledge but sufferers and families of sufferers are sharing more and more the stories of their journeys through mental illness. This not only brings the subject out in the open more, ……Continue reading Share your story to help stigma and others’ understanding of mental illness Here I look at factors that can affect the recovery from BPD… Firstly… Chaotic or adverse life events… People with BPD encounter an overwhelming large number of unpleasant, stressful events and hassles. (Like me with buying Spanish property, relationships, jobs, bankruptcy etc – and these were often brought about by my tendency to do things ……Continue reading What keeps Borderline Personality Disorder - BPD going? Psychiatric disorders that often co-occur with BPD BPD comes with a lot of baggage. Most people have at least one other psychiatric disorder and some have several. Maybe, depression, anxiety or struggle with alcohol or drug use. It is very challenging to deal with all the symptoms together, making it more difficult to recover. Substance ……Continue reading Psychiatric disorders that often co-occur with Borderline personality disorder - BPD Skills to help cope with difficult emotions and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) from my experiences 🙂 Coping with your emotions “I get sick of my emotions – the slightest thing sometimes, I cannot cope with – I want to, but my body starts shaking and a panic comes on, and the anger, I just cannot ……Continue reading Skills to help cope with difficult emotions and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) from my experiences Invalidation Invalidating environment – what is it? An invalidating environment is one where the people around you don’t help you to deal with your emotions, whether they mean to or not. They may say you are wrong for feeling your emotions or punish/ignore you when you get emotional. I have had a lot of that ……Continue reading Invalidation, how it affects our emotions and can lead to Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) |
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