English: Keep Calm and Carry On UK government poster (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
or in my case while you are behind!
I’ve never been one to have much luck as it is, I’m sure some of my readers would even agree that is an understatement of epic proportions, but it just keeps on happening… Continue reading
FRIENDS (Photo credit: [Share the Word])
Fellow High-functioning BPD sufferer Clara was inspired by my recent poem Finger on the Trigger and decided to write her own poem using the format I had used. I offered to share it here for her as she does not have her own blog but wanted to know what I thought of her poem, I loved it and I’m sure you will too…
BPD Objects (Photo credit: Vinally2010)
I was doing well, my recovery from BPD was progressing, so I told myself, but recently I noticed that something wasn’t quite ‘right’ and as usual identifying what exactly was wrong was hard.
I think I may have been lying to myself for a while, I think I may have been masking again. Falling apart inside, outside appearing to be doing well. I think I am self-sabotaging…
I have been slowly picking at trying to work out exactly why I am slipping off the recovery tracks and what has caused this, then yesterday I was replying to an email I had received from someone about BPD and as I wrote my own situation started spilling out and I had a realisation about what is going wrong and why…
This is what I wrote in that email (details of the other person not included)… Continue reading
Combining the Angel and Devil to become a whole person
When you live with BPD everything is black and white, there are no shades of grey.
Good or evil, nothing in between.
Everyone jokes about having an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other and them being stuck in the middle, with BPD the difference is there is no you in the middle, you are the angel and the devil at constant war with yourself to control you thoughts, feelings and emotions… it is a defence mechanism doomed to failure…
How does this impact on forming romantic relationships?
Let me take you on a journey through my world…
Today we’ll examine the Devil’s perspective, I’ll reveal the angel in another post…
Unlucky 13 (Photo credit: tim ellis)
I hoped this year would be different…
I hoped this year would be better…
I said ’2013 is gonna be my year’ I intended for it to be a happy and prosperous year, after the last few years I could do with a bit of goodness and happiness for a change, by golly do I deserve a break from all the bad things…
So, is 2013 going to be my year or will it just prove that 13 is unlucky for some (including me!?)… Continue reading
