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A Horrifying Week with My Borderline Personality Disorder
I google “how to hang yourself from a radiator” in the waiting room before ducking out for a quick cry. BON: I stumbled on this over the weekend. It’s worth the time to read. It really captures the desperation of BPD. A Horrifying Week with My Borderline Personality Disorder by Heather Sleepy MENTAL ILLNESS OCT 23, 2015 I was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder last December, but that was only the beginning of my troubles. This is my diary of what came after. Monday Monday is relatively chill. I manage to make it to work for 10 AM, only 30 minutes late. I’m 100 percent sure my boss thinks I’m…
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Having borderline personality disorder helps me in my NHS job
People with personality disorders are often the most vulnerable in society, but providing adequate treatment isn’t cheap or easy. Having borderline personality disorder helps me in my NHS job Some people have said it’s a career death sentence but my lived experience of mental health problems makes me a more compassionate clinician I work for the NHS as a psychological wellbeing practitioner. I love it. I want to give something back and help others as, in my early twenties, I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD), one of the most stigmatised mental health conditions. People suffering with BPD are often described as manipulative, violent, attention-seeking and impossible to treat.…
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To Stop Procrastinating, Start by Understanding the Emotions Involved
Psychologists also are studying other ways people might be able to reduce procrastination, such as better emotion-regulation strategies and visions of the future self. To Stop Procrastinating, Start by Understanding the Emotions Involved Time management goes only so far; the emotional reasons for delay must also be addressed By SHIRLEY S. WANG Updated Aug. 31, 2015 11:44 p.m. ET Putting off a work or school assignment in order to play video games or water the plants might seem like nothing more serious than poor time-management. But researchers say chronic procrastination is an emotional strategy for dealing with stress, and it can lead to significant issues in relationships, jobs, finances and…
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Ignore Your Feelings
We certainly share a lot with DBT, a kind of CBT for people who have intensely destructive feelings—dialectic behavioral therapy. Particularly because it started out with the idea that it was directly for people who were suffering terribly. Ignore Your Feelings A profanity-filled new self-help book argues that life is kind of terrible, so you should value your actions over your emotions. OLGA KHAZAN SEP 9, 2015 Put down the talking stick. Stop fruitlessly seeking “closure” with your peevish co-worker. And please, don’t bother telling your spouse how annoying you find their tongue-clicking habit—sometimes honesty is less like a breath of fresh air and more like a fart. That’s the…
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Call for more tailored approach to mental health
“I’m fed up with hearing that CBT is the answer to everything. Borderline personality disorder doesn’t respond to CBT but I’ve been offered it four times.” Call for more tailored approach to mental health A woman from Powys who has borderline personality disorder has called on the Welsh government to tailor mental health services towards individuals. Sarah Harmon, 22, from Presteigne, has spoken to politicians to offer recommendations to improve treatment. She said a “one size fits all” approach of offering Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) did not suit everyone. The Welsh government said it had worked with health boards to improve access to psychological therapies. Ms Harmon said: “I’m fed…
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Mother who attempted suicide writes open letter to A&E staff saying “Stop judging me”
“When I attend your department I can guarantee it’s as a last resort. I’ll have spent up to an hour tending to my cuts, trying to dress them and have been mentally running through the pros and cons of presenting at A&E to seek help. (There are always more cons) I have never took that decision to attend lightly.” Mother who attempted suicide writes open letter to A&E staff saying “Stop judging me” James Connell A MUM from Worcester who has attempted suicide several times has written an open letter to the city’s A&E department asking staff to show more compassion for people like her. Mother-of-three Sasha Bailey-Dean who lives…