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  • 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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    How People With Autism Fake It

    September 30, 2015

    Doing Autism Differently

    April 2, 2015

    “If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism”

    February 10, 2017
  • 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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    In my head, I’m normal

    February 7, 2013
    Different Tree

    How BPD made me a better expat

    January 29, 2013
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    Don’t Let Self-Doubt Sabotage Success

    April 23, 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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    The (Supermarket) Help

    August 27, 2013
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    Stigma is still biggest hurdle to treating depression

    February 28, 2012
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    Top expats on Twitter: Aisha Ashraf – Telegraph

    July 6, 2012
  • 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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    A Book, a Bereavement, and a Betrayal

    February 3, 2016
    The A-Team

    The A-Team

    February 21, 2013
    Window on our world

    How I Discovered The Real Ramadan

    July 30, 2013
  • 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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    BPD – How Can You Help?

    April 10, 2013
    Triceratops-eye view

    In my head, I’m normal

    February 7, 2013
    Franz_Von_Stuck_-_Sisyphus

    Don’t Let Self-Doubt Sabotage Success

    April 23, 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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    Borderline Personality Disorder – getting a diagnosis

    December 13, 2012
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    Where Have You Been?

    May 29, 2014
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    Don’t Let Self-Doubt Sabotage Success

    April 23, 2013
  • Borderline Personality Disorder,  Mental Health,  Writing

    Don’t Let Self-Doubt Sabotage Success

    April 23, 2013 /
    Franz_Von_Stuck_-_Sisyphus

    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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    When Aspergers Is Good News

    March 13, 2014
    Waves on a shore: Be Water text

    Shoot & Quote: Intangible Water

    November 20, 2013
    Streetlamp at sunset

    BPD – How Can You Help?

    April 10, 2013
  • Blog,  Borderline Personality Disorder,  Mental Health

    BPD – How Can You Help?

    April 10, 2013 /
    Streetlamp at sunset

    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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    September 13, 2011
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    Toronto Time-Lapse

    October 10, 2012
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    Story Of A Miscarriage (Part 1)

    October 16, 2013
  • 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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    The Coldest February Since Eighteen-Something

    February 25, 2015
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    Playing In Paris

    October 2, 2013
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    7 things to remember when moving to Canada

    March 7, 2012
  • Blog,  Borderline Personality Disorder,  Mental Health,  Mindfulness

    “Dear borderline me…”

    February 26, 2013 /
    Mind-logo

    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.

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    Walking Tall – freedom from sexual harassment in Canada

    June 24, 2013
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    Canada’s influence on your wardrobe…

    November 16, 2011
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    Make Me A Muslim

    February 12, 2013
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Top Posts & Pages

  • How People With Autism Fake It
    How People With Autism Fake It
  • Nude yoga: Now available in Toronto
    Nude yoga: Now available in Toronto
  • A Sunday stroll and a history lesson
    A Sunday stroll and a history lesson
  • Meeting the In-Laws - bridging the cultural divide
    Meeting the In-Laws - bridging the cultural divide
  • Accepting Disability - A Work In Progress
    Accepting Disability - A Work In Progress
  • How do you know your interracial marriage will work?
    How do you know your interracial marriage will work?
  • Bangles, Betrothal & ‘A Good Pakistani Girl’
    Bangles, Betrothal & ‘A Good Pakistani Girl’

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