“ I wish people understood that having BPD doesn’t mean you are a horrible person to be avoided at all costs!”…
All tagged Emotions
Lockdown life
Insights into life during Lockdown when everyday normality is lost.
Mental Health Awareness Week
Insights into how the week improved my own mental health awareness as well as that of others.
Ups and downs
Insights into efforts to avoid EUPD/BPD stereotypes and how the inevitable rollercoaster of emotions continues.
Being proud is allowed
Being symptomatic of your condition is not a sign of weakness or failure.
Fighting feelings
As symptoms step-up, overcoming the intensity of emotions accompanying them is an ongoing battle.
Finding affection
Thoughts on the importance of language in EUPD and how those with the condition yearn for contact.
Talking awareness
Insights into a talk to Samaritans and thoughts on raising awareness.
Care and compassion
A focus on self-care and acceptance when thoughts and feelings become overwhelming.
Difficult days
Insights into the days after my first EMDR based session and the need for self-care.
Positivity pays
Finding positives in the EUPD / BPD diagnosis and questioning whether positivity itself attracts more.
Feelings aren't wrong
EUPD emotions may be a little more extreme than most people’s but they’re not wrong. We have as much right to feel as anybody else and so too does everyone with a mental health condition.