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Living with BPD: How BPD Contributes to My Sensitive Writing Skills (In Their Words)
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The following post was originally posted on Psychreg Writers with BPD “For people with Borderline Personality Disorder, expressing themselves artistically can be an outlet for dealing with emotional instability, managing emotions, learning to see the world in a palette of colors (rather than in black and white), finding creative solutions to problems, and thinking outside […]
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A Brief History of Borderline Personality Disorder’s Name
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This article was originally published on Psychreg. The term “borderline personality disorder” (BPD) is interesting in psych nomenclature. Usually, psychosocial illnesses are named after their most prominent symptoms. For example, bipolar disorder (formerly, manic depression) refers to the “two poles” of mania and depression. Many medical conditions have carried different labels throughout history; even now, […]
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BPD Episode: What It’s Like + Reaction 4 Years Later (Video)
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What Does a BPD Episode Feel Like? In the video below, I read my first ever blog post on BPD Beautiful. The post is from 2019 and it detailed what a BPD episode looked like for me at the time, which was the start of my BPD recovery journey. I also provide a present day […]
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Living with BPD: 1 Year vs. 3 Years of DBT for BPD Recovery
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Living with BPD: From Hopeless to Recovery My name is Audrey and I spent 20 years living with BPD before getting into remission. I created BPD Beautiful because I want to help spread BPD awareness and help others in understanding BPD—a debilitating, life threatening and highly stigmatized condition that causes frequent and intense mood swings, […]
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Borderline Personality Disorder and the Church: Christians with BPD (In Their Words)
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Trigger Warning: Christianity in a favorable light, struggles with belief in God, fitting in at church, splitting, BPD symptoms. Read at your own discretion. You can’t understand me without understanding borderline personality disorder. I’m still wrestling with feeling like I don’t fit in and that I’m misunderstood. I don’t know anyone who can relate to […]
