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Living with BPD: Arpita’s BPD Recovery (In Their Words)
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Trigger Warning: verbal & physical abuse, self harm, suicide attempts, death by suicide, hospitalization. Read at your own discretion. My Living with BPD Story Living with BPD is no easy feat. This is one girl’s story: “Hello everyone. I am Arpita, a resident of Delhi, India. I will be telling you my living with bpd story […]
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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 […]
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How I Overcome Regressions in BPD Recovery
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Back in the fall—my therapist told me that after two years of working with her on my borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptoms and childhood trauma, I’d made enough progress in my BPD recovery to begin decreasing services. We went from weekly sessions to bi-weekly sessions. Then we did monthly check-ins. Now, seven months later, I’m […]
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Living with BPD and an Eating Disorder
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Trigger Warning: Purging, food restriction, treatment program, mothers with eating disorders. Read at your own discretion. BPD and Eating Disorders I’m Audrey—a 29 year old mom of an elementary school aged boy with borderline personality disorder and a long history of mental illness. My eating disorder, in particular, began around the time I was 13 years […]
