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...
by Dee Chan | Apr 9, 2020 | Borderline Personality
Borderline Personality Disorder has an anxiety monster that lives in our heads Most of us who have been diagnosed with BPD know all too well the anxiety monster that lives in your heads. I have long believed that anxiety fuels BPD but the real question is: which came...
by Dee Chan | Mar 30, 2020 | Borderline Personality
Learning about my BPD diagnosis was traumatic Learning about my BPD diagnosis was very traumatic all by itself. I’ve really struggled with this information. It’s been very hard to come to terms with it. But, it has also been kind of a relief because it helps explain...
by Dee Chan | Mar 19, 2020 | Borderline Personality
Some things to remember if you are struggling with your BPD diagnosis No one every wakes up one morning and makes a decision to have a personality disorder. It doesn’t work that way. If you are struggling with your BPD diagnosis, these are some of the things I want...
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