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...
Happy Pride Month! In June, we take extra care to celebrate those of us who identify as members of the LGBTQIA+ community. I am here to share a piece of my story that I hope will leave some readers feeling a little more seen than ever before. I’ll be inviting you into...
In thinking about classic BPD symptoms like emotion dysregulation, I felt it might be a good time to once again touch on a tool that was crucial to my teen years and early 20s, crisis after crisis. The DBT TIPP skills are tried and true in-the-moment de-escalation...
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...
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...
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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