He who hesitates is lost, or so the aphorism goes. However, in the face of an overwhelming emotion or a frightening, threatening event, I’ve found that a slight hesitation can make the critical difference between doing something I regret and doing something skillful. For the last four years, I have been studying a martial art […]
Category Archives: BPD Life
Dreams of Transformation
I have no idea why the idea of transformation keeps occurring to me. I’ve been thinking about it for at least a month. I’m very wary of such ideas. I saw an article today which jokingly referred to DBT as “Don’t Believe your Thoughts,” and the idea of transformation is one I am particularly skeptical […]
DX – Old and New
When telling a story, it’s always good to start at the beginning, right? But figuring out where the beginning is… is not always so easy. My BPD journey presumably began in my teens, but my school and home life in my teens was so disrupted that it’s basically impossible to tease out what was caused […]
Just another blog about BPD
How I ended up getting diagnosed twice with the same thing… almost 40 years apart.