bpdthings

Contrary to popular (and mostly wrong) belief, there are positive attributes to having BPD. Of course it doesn't negate how miserable and destructive this disorder is to our everyday life, but it does shine what little light there is on our personalities 🥴 If you couldn't tell, I have a grim outlook on everything, but I'm at least trying!⁠

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For one, people with BPD tend to be very creative and expressive through art. I'm not sure what exactly the correlation is, but we do tend to have a community of artists amongst our crowd!⁠

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Which then is really no surprise with how insightful we are, having resume-quality experience with emotional turmoil, manic euphoria, and overwhelming numbness. And because we endure this emotional rollercoaster 24/7, we understand some of the deepest and most painful situations and emotions. ⁠

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We have our lows, and then we have our lowest lows. But continuing with the black-and-white trend of our disorder, that also means we have our highs and highest highs! We love unconditionally, with the purest love that could almost out-beat a mother's. Almost.⁠

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And it all goes to say, with the daily shitstorm we fight off every minute, from the criticisms, biases, perfect imperfections, and the fact that our own brains are literally try to kill us, we are probably one of the strongest group of people in the world. I said what I said ❤️⁠

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It's my favorite time of my life - mental breakdown, BPD overload! 🙃 As if losing one's job, learning that the love of your life has been cheating on you, and mourning your mom's death as if it was yesterday is a lot already, let's just add a BPD relapse into the mix!⁠

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And since I'm going through a lot of rapid emotions, the usual BPD criteria, and waiting for my insurance to be approved to start @talkspace again (just wait for the post I have planned for that!) I figured I would do a re-post (more fitting to the brand now!) of the 9 criteria of BPD!⁠

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Designated by the DSM-5, at least five or more of these traits must be met in order to be diagnosed with BPD, and even then most therapists or psychiatrists will take a deeper dive into each to really solidify the diagnosis - it took me a year to finally convince my therapist that I had this disorder. Then it took another 3 years to be diagnosed with Bipolar alongside it, but that's a story for another post! 😅⁠

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I plan on doing a deep dive of each criteria, both the clinical and personal definitions of each, so make sure to follow and sign up for my newsletter for when this hits! By the way, I'm really really bad at sending emails - work in progress!

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1. Not letting yourself get close to people because you’re afraid you’ll get hurt then being hurt anyway because no one wants to be close to you in the first place.

2. Hating someone so much you wish they leave forever, but loving them so much you’d die if they did.

3. Trying your best not to cry or go into a rage after someone criticizes you in the smallest way.

4. Being triggered by the slightest things.

5. Always feeling alone you know deep down that no one cares or understands, and that those who are in your life won’t stay for very long.

6. Being convinced you can never make the one you love happy and asking them for reassurance until your constant mistrust drives them over the edge and makes them unhappy.

7. Make something cool. Inner voice says “That’s stupid, destroy it!”

8. Spending money you need to be saving on things you did not need when you feel down about yourself.

9. Detaching yourself from those closest to you just in case they decide to hurt you.

10. “I’m so scared of being nice and still being rejected.”

11. No matter how hard you try, everyone still leaves.

12. Crying for days because everything is suddenly Sad.

13. Not being emotionally available for your love ones because it’s too triggering.

14. Hating on your boyfriend/girlfriend or spouse every time he/she is not there for you.

15. Telling someone “I hate you, don’t talk to me!” And an hour later you love them.

I relate to all of these!

Feel free to add more to the list in case I missed any.