by Dee Chan | Jun 25, 2020 | Borderline Personality, Mental Health
Real forgiveness requires a willing heart Last night I watched a documentary on Amazon Prime called Forgiving Dr. Mengele. It was about a woman named Eva Mozes Kor who, at the tender age of nine, found herself together with the rest of her family, standing on the...
by Dee Chan | May 13, 2019 | Borderline Personality
I always took my primary emotion of “hurt” or “sadness” and turned it into a secondary emotion — anger I was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) about 35 years ago back when the diagnosis was fairly new and not well understood at all. I struggled with...
by Dee Chan | Mar 14, 2019 | Borderline Personality
“the brain is a machine for jumping to conclusions” ― Daniel Kahneman Most of us with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) can relate to this: you are out with a friend and she says something about your hairstyle which insults you and before you know it, you are off...
by Dee Chan | Nov 22, 2017 | Borderline Personality
People who have BPD often have tremendous issues with anger — both expressing it and being the recipient of it. They will often go to extreme lengths to make people happy in order to avoid having people get angry at them. The flip side of that is that they themselves...
by Dee Chan | May 3, 2017 | Borderline Personality
As you probably already know one of the diagnostic criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder is rage and the way in which these patients deal with it. In my case, I was always angry: at someone or something or a situation. It was endless. I would spend my days...
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