Are you depressed, too? Suffer from borderline personality disorder?
How are you working to make yourself feel better?
What kinds of strategies work? What doesn't work?
I need all the help I can get!
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Borderline personality disorder is a diagnosis full of pain and fear. Yet it also brings relief, for it is highly curable with a combination of work, desire and time. What doesn't help is the proliferation of erroneous and offensive information about the disorder. If you see such information on the Web, tell me and I'll counter it here. I'm an expert on how it feels to have this disorder, and how it feels to have the World's Best Therapist(tm) treat me with dialectical behavioral therapy.
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- Borderline personality disorder is a diagnosis full of pain and fear. It also brings relief, for it is highly curable with a combination of work, desire and time. What doesn't help is the proliferation of erroneous and offensive information about the disorder. If you see such information on the Web, tell me and I'll counter it here. I'm an expert on how it feels to have this disorder, and how it feels to have the World's Best Therapist(tm) treat me with dialectical behavioral therapy, an amazing treatment developed at the University of Washington by Dr. Marsha Linehan. That's what you'll find in my blog -- upfront information countering some of the misinformation out there. You will also see into my heart as I answer these things, and as I live, for I am emotionally sensitive, one of the traits of this disorder. I want this blog to be one of the places I don't have to be ashamed of having BPD. One of the places where I can be Just Me.
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It's a struggle most of the time, with BPD.
Strategies that work for me (Although not all the time)
- mindfullness, just focusing on the present, letting the past go, not worrying about the future, just focussing on the moment, and acknowledging that emotions come and go.
- sometimes distraction helps - watching TV, my favourite show, or reading a good book.
- doing something I enjoy - painting, or going out for a run, or writing in my journal.
All are really DBT skills I have learnt from my group last year. I'm still working on improving the skills with my therapist.
Hope you will find something that will help you in your stuggles.
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