I wondered how much I would relate to the character of Alice, played by Kristen Wiig in the new movie Welcome to Me. In the movie, Alice says that she was thought to have bipolar rapid cycling but was later told she had borderline personality disorder. I could relate to that. She disclosed this while […]
Recently in my online DBT class, I shared a story from back in my early twenties when I had a very difficult time with boundaries. I call the story “Bus Stop Disclosure,” a play on the phrase “doorknob disclosure,” which therapist use to describe the major disclosure bomb that some patients wait until the very end […]
So many of you resonated with my recent article “BPD: Why Do We Sabotage?” that I thought I’d cover another topic that many of us with Borderline Personality Disorder, BPD traits, or who are in recovery can relate to: Why do we seem so needy? There was a time in my life, both before I […]
Maybe you’ve been accused of being manipulative because you behave in certain ways due to having borderline personality disorder. Maybe you’ve heard the term “Drama Queen” thrown in your direction. Both of these labels and accusations imply that you are deliberately behaving in ways that are upsetting to others or inappropriate to the circumstances. But […]
I have had a long journey with psychiatric medications the predates my diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder. As a young teenager (age 15), I was put on Zoloft for depression after entering a residential group home for girls. I would remain on Zoloft (other than those impulsive cold turkey stops and those times when […]
This past week has been pretty good, with the exception of reemergence of intense anxiety. Just like most everyone else, from time to time work gets stressful, health issues, etc. I won’t whine, because I know we all have our “cross to bear,” as my mother says. We are all carrying something. We’re all doing our […]
Hello Healing from BPD Community. Please join me in welcoming guest blogger, therapist Michelle Dabach, MA, MFT of Optimum Performance Institute and the Roanne Program for young adults with Borderline Personality Disorder and BPD traits! – Debbie Corso Mindfulness is a skill taught in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), a modality typically used to treat young […]
I didn’t know in my teens that I would develop borderline personality disorder, but I had a number of other mental health issues during my adolescence that led to my need to be in very intensive services. Included in these was residential treatment facilities. When I share with people that some of the best years […]
Image courtesy of Alchemy I was so excited to learn from one of my students that Kristen Wiig of Saturday Night Live and movie fame will be portraying a young woman with borderline personality disorder (BPD) in a new major motion picture coming out on May 1, 2015 called “Welcome to Me.” I don’t know […]
A support system is an incredibly important part of recovery from borderline personality disorder (BPD). But what do you do if you don’t have this? What do you do if you’ve pushed everyone away and burned every bridge? What do you do if you’ve isolated and don’t have any more connections? How do you […]
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