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What I learnt when I tried to kill myself
It’s all too easy to glamourise suicide once it’s happened. To pack out a funeral ceremony, dripping platitudes, telling everyone you “wish you’d known”. But if the potential suicide victim “fails”? What I learnt when I tried to kill myself What do you do when everyone knows what you did? By Charlotte Dingle A few weeks ago I joined the same exclusive club as Drew Barrymore, Eminem, Britney Spears and a host of other celebs. Like your average A-list party, there was plenty of booze and a few pills involved. There was a trip to casualty, too – again, not atypical. But this was a party of one. Mired in…
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How Borderline Personality Disorder Put an End to My Party Days (#BPD)
The negative emotions I have are immobilizing. They crash over me like huge waves, knocking the wind out of me and forcing me underwater. How Borderline Personality Disorder Put an End to My Party Days August 10, 2015 by Harriet Williamson In the summer of 2010, just before I turned 19 and in my first year of university, I attempted suicide with a month’s supply of my antidepressants and ended up in intensive care, breathing on a machine. By my second year, my good-time friends had had enough of me. I was no longer invited out, and became very isolated and increasingly unhappy. I got into an abusive relationship and…
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‘Stop the stigma,’ says Summer’s mom
Many times, drug abuse and mental health issues go hand and hand…Summer was recently diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. ‘Stop the stigma,’ says Summer’s mom by Melissa Hale-Spencer After Summer Smith died last Jan. 9, her mother and her young son went through her box of special keepsakes. In the box was an edition of The Altamont Enterprise devoted to the aftermath of a 2000 crash on Hurst Road that killed two teens and wounded a third. The kids had been hotboxing — driving while stoned. Summer, then a 17-year-old Guilderland High School senior, was friends with a classmate who died in the crash. Summer — a beautiful young woman…
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Kaz hopes to repay mental health charity MIND after years of support through her “darkest hours”
Miss Sykes was diagnosed with bi-polar and a borderline personality disorder in 2004 and has battled against drug, alcohol, self-harm and depression for over ten years. Kaz hopes to repay mental health charity MIND after years of support through her “darkest hours” By Mid Devon Gazette Posted: June 07, 2015 A TIVERTON couple are about to overcome a feat of mental strength and stamina in an ulta-marathon. Kaz Sykes, 38, and partner Ray Elphick, 37 will compete in the The Wall, a 69 mile, 24 hour cross country endurance race taking in the sights of Carlisle to Gateshead along Hadrian’s Wall. Kaz is raising money for mental health charity MIND…
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Methadone: A mother’s search for answers
Bonnie also struggled with mental illness, including borderline personality disorder, which is marked by unstable moods and difficulty controlling emotions. Methadone: A mother’s search for answers By Ella Nilsen Outside the Keene Metro Treatment Center on Route 10 in Swanzey, Kathy White of Fitzwilliam shook her head and steeled herself against the brisk winter air. Before getting back into the car, she took a quick puff on a cigarette to calm her nerves. It was early March, nearly eight months after Kathy, 58, first requested her daughter Bonnie White’s medical records from the clinic, which dispenses methadone to people who say they want to get clean from opiates, including heroin…
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Reopening Substance Abuse Poll
I have an interest in substance abuse and Borderline Personality Disorder. I have decided to reopen the substance abuse poll for a while to collect more data. See the left column for access to the poll. Bon No related posts.