LGBTQ+ BPD Pride: Discovering Your Unique Superpower

It is LGBTQ+ Pride Month! We all know that pride month celebrates all of the amazing people who are LGBTQ+, and recognizes the positive impact that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other individuals have had on history. Heritage of Pride is the nonprofit...

True To Me

  I had my first crush on a boy that I met in preschool. I was fixated on that kid until middle school, when the pool of candidates widened dramatically and I found another boy to fill my daydreams. Middle school was also where I was first introduced to the idea...

Living the Symptoms: Part III: My Tools for My Symptoms

It is difficult to learn new skills and very difficult to actually put them into practice when you have chronic and severe emotion dysregulation. It takes a courageous and “I’ll never give up” attitude. When I realized the chaos and pain could actually lessen for me...

Living the Symptoms: Part II: Two Categories of Strategies

Once I was diagnosed, the first thing I had to do was accept that, as a person with BPD or chronic and severe emotion dysregulation, my symptoms are going to cause me to feel intense emotional pain. My brain is built that way and I don’t know how to stop my brain or...

Living The Symptoms, Part I: How I Experience My Symptoms

Trigger Warning: the following blog contains material which could be experienced as triggering difficult and painful thoughts and feelings. Please read with caution and consult with a professional clinician as needed. You’ve heard of the nine symptoms and know that,...
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