Trigger Warning I’m feeling better, so back to pondering. I can’t tell you how happy I am to be able to ponder today. Just imagine it, ok? I have some issues with diagnoses. Cutting or other self injury (SI) is one diagnostic criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Along with repeated suicide attempts. Read the [...]Tags: blog therapy, bloody annoying, diagnosis, frustration, mental illness

…that I’m much more comfortable “talking” on my blog about bipolar stuff than the rest. The rest mostly being the various abuses I survived. Or the addictions I survived. Or the rape. Or the mugging at gunpoint.  Or. Or. Or.  Yes, the bipolar disorder is a total pain in the ass.  It’s hard to live [...]Tags: abuse, addiction, bipolar, rape, trust

I started thinking of labels because of my recent post on tolerance. After later reading that post I realized it’s not that I’m intolerant of mental illness, per se. I’m scared of it, whether in myself or others. Understandably so, considering that mental illness has wreaked havoc on my life since birth. OK, I’ll [...]Tags: bipolar, bpd, c-ptsd, mental illness

I was whizzing around the web today trying to forget the bs going on around me. I stumbled across a site called “Untreatable’s Blog -Borderline Personality Self Harm Depression“. Quite the title. Apparently Untreatable has been diagnosed with Severe Major Depressive Disorder with Psychotic features, Borderline Personality Disorder, Chronic Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Generalized [...]Tags: bipolar, bpd, c-ptsd, meds, sanity

Did I mention that now they’ve decided I don’t have borderline personality disorder? Instead they have decided I have complex-PTSD.  How nice.  At least it doesn’t have the same stigma attached. a2a_linkname="c-ptsd"; a2a_linkurl="http://migrainechow.com/2008/04/18/c-ptsd/"; Babbled by Immi. "Are you sure it isn't time for [...]

I am trying to dig myself out of this funk I’ve been in for the last couple of days. Sometimes my shovel seems entirely inadequate. Other times it seems like the shit I’m shoveling is just far too heavy. It gets discouraging at times. My lovely therapy emphasizes skillz. Skillz for living a better life. [...]

I got this in an email from my father. I have reviewed the DSM IV criteria of borderline at the “BPD today” site. and I wonder which of the 9 criteria fit you according to you. We could talk about those things whenever you feel like it. Some of the things do not seem [...]