personality disorder
Personality disorders are as complex as they are misunderstood; delve into this diagnosis and learn the typical cognitions, behaviors, and inner experience of those inflicted.
BPD and Me Part 1
I guess I've always known that I wasn't "normal" from a young age. I always felt things more intensely than other people, and held onto those emotions longer. I had difficulty making and keeping friends. Due to my mixed ancestry, I had a constant identity crisis, never knowing where I fit in. I also had a very tumultuous childhood in which I experienced traumas that still affect me to this day. I always wondered what was wrong with me. Was it something that I could fix, or would I just have to suffer my whole life? It was not until I was 27 that I was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, the most commonly diagnosed personality disorder. Where I live (the United Kingdom), it's estimated that seven out of every 1000 people have this disorder.
By Matti dos Santos7 years ago in Psyche
The Black or White Thinking, Dramatic and Erratic Personality
The term Borderline Personality Disorder or BPD isn't the most well-known mental illness, compared to Depression, Bipolar Disorder, and Anxiety but it affects 1.6 percent of people in the United States and 2 percent of people in Canada. BPD is a Personality Disorder which, by definition, means: A deeply ingrained and maladaptive pattern of behaviour of a specified kind, typically manifested by the time one reaches adolescence and causing long-term difficulties in personal relationships or in functioning in society. Personality Disorders have three Clusters; Cluster A (Odd, Eccentric, Bizarre), Cluster B (Dramatic, Erratic),and Cluster C (Anxious, Fearful). Our friend BPD falls under Cluster B and can not only be debilitating, frustrating, and tiring for us, but it can also affect the lives of those around us.
By Hailey Gumbley7 years ago in Psyche
Mercury Retrograde: The Good, The Bad and The Truth!
Have you ever wondered if the planets could actually have an affect on your life? It's not as far-fetched as one might think it is. Mercury is more than just a mysterious planet in the far away galaxy. Even though Mercury is an average distance of 48 million miles (77 kilometers) from Earth, it's presence is felt by all of the people that are living on planet Earth.
By Silena Le Beau7 years ago in Psyche
Living with Borderline Personality Disorder - the Diagnosis
It took a lot out of me to muster up the courage to make it to my therapy appointment on time. By the time I had gotten dressed, the anxiety of leaving the house had set in. The lurking thoughts of my fear of driving —thanks to my car accident earlier in the year — caused my heart to race. It did not stop pounding on the trip across town, not even as I arrived, only intensified as I entered the behavioral health office. Step one, check, I told myself. I made it to the office. Without making eye contact with the receptionist, I checked in and flipped through our local newspaper (supplied by the office) to try to ease my anticipation. The therapist called my name, led me to her office, and closed the door behind me; not only ensuring my legally-required privacy, but sealing me inside her office to unleash my life story and traumas in what should have taken an hour… but dragged on well past two. She took a long time to think and write down my experiences.
By Jess Didway7 years ago in Psyche
Past the Borderline
Ever since I was young I had the most difficult time when it came to making and keeping friends. I would always seem to lose friends and it would never last more than 4 years or less. I was forced to go to counseling when I was younger but to say that it helped at the time, I don't know if I could say. From waking up being angry at the world to going to bed hating myself and the world. "Why me?" I would always say to myself. Why was it me that got adopted, why is it me that always cries and gets in trouble for trying to having her emotions and feelings heard? Why why why??
By Emily Buehner7 years ago in Psyche
Borderline Personality Disorder vs. Relationships
Having borderline personality disorder isn't something that I share often or with many people, mostly because I am afraid of what people will think. People with borderline personality disorder know what I'm talking about when I say we do not take the word "no" easily. Sometimes, I blow things way out of proportion for no reason at all, lash out, and sometimes even black out what I am doing.
By Ginger Curls7 years ago in Psyche
Am I a Psycho?
Halloween night, my ex-boyfriend came over to take his things out of my car. He was angry because I didn't spend time with him for Halloween, and he saw that I was hanging out with my neighbors instead. This immediately led to an argument where he kept calling me a "psychopathic, manipulative B!+(# that doesn't care about anyone but themselves."
By Gabriella robles7 years ago in Psyche
The Diagnosed 'Crazy'
There are people amongst us all who've suffered some form of childhood trauma and as a result of that they're now strong, wise individuals who've become the opposite of their perpetrators, and that's amazing. However, there are also people who have absorbed the behaviours they found themselves victim to as a child and it now reflects in their everyday lives, and that's okay too. Does this make the latter group weaker than their counterparts? Of course not. Everybody grows and learns differently; a lot of who we are today is a result of how our experiences have affected us and more often than not, people don't just get to choose how certain events effect them, especially not as children.
By Shanelle ♔7 years ago in Psyche