When Aspergers Is Good News
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...
BPD: Suspended Animation
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...
Shoot & Quote: Intangible Water
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...
Black Flowers Blossom – Surfing the BPD breakers
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...
- Borderline Personality Disorder, Bridging Cultures, Expat Life, Interracial marriage, Islam, Mental Health
Identity – More Than The Sum Of My Parts
You might think identity is something that comes from within, but copying and assumption have a huge influence in how we see ourselves.
BPD LIKE A BOSS! Don’t let your diagnosis define you
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...
Don’t Let Self-Doubt Sabotage Success
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...
BPD – How Can You Help?
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.
Battling BPD
It doesn’t matter how many times BPD engulfs my mind, I can never recognize it for what it is at the outset.
“Dear borderline me…”
I recently completed a piece of mindfulness homework that had an unexpected effect on me. It seems the wonderful people who run the blog at Mind thought it was pretty special too. They asked me nicely to remove the swear-words, and then... they published it.
