by Dee Chan | Jun 11, 2020 | Borderline Personality
People with BPD are courageous every day Last week my boarder who lived downstairs passed away very suddenly. Since then I have been thinking a lot about death but even more about what it means to live. I have been on my own now for 14 years since my husband passed...
by Dee Chan | May 29, 2020 | Borderline Personality
BPD causes us to feel like we are drowning in our emotions Every single one of us has experienced this. In one instance, you are fine, dealing with your customer load, answering questions, taking orders and then, all of a sudden, something happens and you suddenly...
by Dee Chan | May 20, 2020 | Borderline Personality
I had never experienced unconditional loveMost of us grew up hearing about it, the story about what unconditional love is like. I did, too. I was just not ever able to believe in the concept though because for me, love always seemed to come with strings attached. As a...
by Dee Chan | May 6, 2020 | Borderline Personality
Self-validation is very hard for people with Borderline Personality Disorder My mother grew up in the mountains of Appalachia where people were hard working, poorly fed, poorly educated but God-fearing and fiercely loving of each other. Still, her mother was a...
by Dee Chan | Apr 16, 2020 | Borderline Personality
“Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.” —Jon Kabat-Zinn It happened gradually. Angry outbursts when driving. His way of trying to shut me up. But I don’t have a history of shutting up just because someone else wants me to be quiet. The...
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