“If you have read back to my early posts on this blog you will know that the whole scene was very close to home for me. I have been that BPD patient on a hospital ward, intent on ending my life…”
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Coping with recurrent grief
“Just because it’s to be expected, it doesn’t make the deaths, or the grief, easier to deal with. People with EUPD aren’t immune to the grief associated with a death by suicide…”
How hope remains
“That hope, the hope that things will become increasingly manageable with time, is what keeps me going and is what I try and inspire in those I now work with.”
Expert by Experience; the journey to NHS England
“If someone had told me then that three years later I would be where I am now, I would probably have yelled at them about how ridiculous they were being and told them to stop giving me false hope…”
Why virtual support just isn’t the same...
Covid-19 has led to a lot of changes in mental healthcare, here are my views.
How to support someone with BPD / EUPD
5 key things to bear in mind if you want to support someone with BPD / EUPD.