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  • Aspergers,  Bipolar,  Borderline Personality Disorder,  Mental Health

    Where Have You Been?

    May 29, 2014 /
    Drawer handle

    I’ve mentally written and re-written the start of this post a thousand times over but when it came to putting it on the page I always lost my nerve. It never sounded right...

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    Point & Shoot: Creativity

    June 9, 2014

    Autism and Friendship – Flying Into The Windowpane

    October 24, 2017
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    Accepting Disability – A Work In Progress

    January 28, 2015
  • Aspergers,  Borderline Personality Disorder,  Mental Health

    When Aspergers Is Good News

    March 13, 2014 /
    Child with aspergers

    We go months in our family without seeing a doctor, then suddenly here we are, test-driving not one but two distinct areas of the Canadian healthcare system...

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    Doing Autism Differently

    April 2, 2015
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    Adult Autism: Is That A Thing?

    October 28, 2015
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    How People With Autism Fake It

    September 30, 2015
  • Borderline Personality Disorder,  Mental Health

    BPD: Suspended Animation

    March 4, 2014 /
    Broken Down Car

    To understand the world at all sometimes I have to just focus on a tiny bit of it – look very hard at what’s close to hand and make it stand in for the whole...

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    Borderline Personality Disorder – getting a diagnosis

    December 13, 2012
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    A Second Chance

    February 5, 2013
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    In my head, I’m normal

    February 7, 2013
  • Blog,  Borderline Personality Disorder,  Mental Health,  Photography

    Shoot & Quote: Intangible Water

    November 20, 2013 /
    Waves on a shore: Be Water text

    I've spent a long time looking for answers and it seems all I needed to know was there in the intangible element I'm naturally drawn to...

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    Birthday Boy!

    February 1, 2012
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    Mindfulness in Depression Relapse Prevention – The Body Scan

    June 20, 2012
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    Dear Dairymilk

    November 18, 2011
  • Blog,  Borderline Personality Disorder,  Mental Health,  Photography

    Black Flowers Blossom – Surfing the BPD breakers

    November 18, 2013 /

    Sunday was a bad day. Black flowers blossomed in the hothouse of my mind, staining my brain with their blooms like cryptic Rorschach blots. Hello BPD my old friend...

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    Silent Sunday – An Afternoon in Ajax

    November 20, 2011
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    Toronto Time-Lapse

    October 10, 2012

    The hardest part…

    November 5, 2011
  • Borderline Personality Disorder,  Bridging Cultures,  Expat Life,  Interracial marriage,  Islam,  Mental Health

    Identity – More Than The Sum Of My Parts

    October 26, 2013 /
    A fluid identity

    You might think identity is something that comes from within, but copying and assumption have a huge influence in how we see ourselves.

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    Living with Borderline Personality Disorder

    February 18, 2012
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    “Dear borderline me…”

    February 26, 2013
    Waves on a shore: Be Water text

    Shoot & Quote: Intangible Water

    November 20, 2013
  • Borderline Personality Disorder,  Expat Life,  Mental Health

    BPD LIKE A BOSS! Don’t let your diagnosis define you

    June 13, 2013 /
    Lewis Hine, Boy studying, ca. 1924

    Knowledge is power. The more you know about your adversary the greater your chances of defeating them, UNLESS you mistake knowledge for a hook to hang personal responsibility on...

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    Identity – More Than The Sum Of My Parts

    October 26, 2013
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    Versatile? Me?

    October 17, 2011
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    A Second Chance

    February 5, 2013
  • Borderline Personality Disorder,  Mental Health,  Writing

    Don’t Let Self-Doubt Sabotage Success

    April 23, 2013 /
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    A thought struck me as I waved K off to work one morning - looking all hotshot and capable in his well-cut suit - and I resolved to talk to him about it when he returned...

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    A Second Chance

    February 5, 2013
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    BPD: Suspended Animation

    March 4, 2014
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    Battling BPD

    April 8, 2013
  • Blog,  Borderline Personality Disorder,  Mental Health

    BPD – How Can You Help?

    April 10, 2013 /
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    Following my last post, where I wrote about my recent BPD episode, I thought I’d clarify how Borderline Personality Disorder makes itself felt, the difficulties sufferers face, and the ways in which those close to them can help.

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    Mindfulness in Depression Relapse Prevention – Autopilot & Raisins

    May 30, 2012
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    Life Lessons – Bringing Mental Health To Class

    September 25, 2013
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    A-Z of Canada: A is for Awesome

    January 16, 2012
  • Blog,  Borderline Personality Disorder,  Mental Health

    Battling BPD

    April 8, 2013 /
    Girl on a rock at the lakeshore

    It doesn’t matter how many times BPD engulfs my mind, I can never recognize it for what it is at the outset.

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    Chocolate heaven…

    January 6, 2012
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    The soundtrack to life abroad

    July 8, 2012
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    Understanding Suicide

    August 23, 2012
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