Control over your emotions is key to maintaining your relationships, psychological well-being, and ability to function in everyday life. If you exploded in rage every time something didn’t go your way, not only would other people want to steer clear of you, but you’d undoubtedly compromise your success in major spheres of your life. As a result, you find ways…
People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) sometimes experience an unstable sense of self, often coupled with heightened emotions and black and white thinking. And while it’s sometimes easy for those with BPD to feel misunderstood, they want to be seen and heard like anyone else. Whether it’s a reminder to the world or for themselves, tattoos are often a beautiful way to tell…
In life, some people we meet have a profound impact on us. They change the way we think and shape our path in unimaginable ways. I dreamed of a relationship that made me feel special, fulfilled, and validated my qualities. I manifested the mirror of what I am not and realized how far I was from being truly myself. Almost…
“Quiet BPD” (Borderline Personality Disorder) is a subtype of BPD that has not been officially included in the DSM. From the surface, people with Quiet BPD look different from those with classic BPD. Quiet BPD is an internalizing disorder, while BPD is typically an externalizing disorder. Someone with Quiet BPD ‘implodes’ rather than ‘explodes’. You put yourself down when bad things…
A lot of people don’t know that I have Borderline Personality Disorder. It’s not something I actively hide but merely comes from when they met me or whether I felt comfortable opening up. Once people know I have BPD, they tend to see me in a different light and sometimes even fear me. BPD still comes with a lot of stigma…
Jealousy is a normal human emotion, but pathological jealousy, also known as delusional jealousy or morbid jealousy, is a psychiatric symptom in which the afflicted person is irrationally preoccupied with a partner’s unfaithfulness based on unfounded evidence. Pathological jealousy is considered by most theorists to be a delusional state, and the phenomenon is encountered not uncommonly in older adults with paraphrenia, a form of psychotic disorder…
Let’s face it, expressing ourselves in an honest and vulnerable way can be a difficult feat for most of us. Especially when revealing to others how we feel when it’s not all sunshine and rainbows. For people with borderline personality disorder (BPD), another layer gets added to the struggles of communicating. Many of those who have BPD share a background of a…
Most people have acted impulsively at one time or another, but for many folks who live with borderline personality disorder (BPD), impulsivity is a symptom that can crop up often and affect daily functioning more than they’d like. There are many ways someone with BPD might engage in impulsive behaviors. Some might speak without thinking in a moment of emotional intensity. Others might have impulse control…
here are many reasons people struggle with the fear of being left. If you’ve experienced it personally, you may be intimately aware with the impact it can have on your daily functioning. Maybe you grew up experiencing emotional abuse, and secure relationship attachments weren’t part of your upbringing. Maybe you’ve lost someone important to you and are afraid of another loved one vanishing without warning.…
was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) around three years ago. I’d had a particularly uncharacteristic outburst at a family member and finally decided to go to my GP, who referred me to a psychiatrist. He saw me for just two sessions before he diagnosed me. As many BPD sufferers feel when they first receive a diagnosis, there’s a sense of relief because…