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The accidental hermit is changing
The main problem for me with Borderline personality disorder is that constant... read more
Faith and mental health
I spent many years discovering and developing my religious viewpoint and... read more
Talking About Self-harm
Self-harm is not just about cutting or burning, its also excessive drinking or... read more
Published elsewhere
Guest blogging here The Arts in Wiltshire I was asked by The Restoration Trust... read more
The Stonehenge lectures 2155
The large lecture hall was filled with around 250 of the most influential... read more
Monthly Archives: September 2015
Crazy in love
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Stay away, I don’t want to play, My heart is closed now go away, I don’t need another to keep me safe, I’m secure in my safe place, I turn and not look back. My hopes of love are in …
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Tagged behavior, Borderline personality, feeling, Happy, Love, Relationships, Self Image
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Contemplating Suicide
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The easy way they say. Do you want to play? The suicide game each day, The choice to die or stay. To live in pain or face the unknown The Samaritans to phone. Talk it away it’s all over blown, …
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Tagged behavior, Borderline personality, Fears, Negative feelings, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts
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Let try happy
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Such a strange little word, Feelings flits like flying bird, I’ve heard of happy, what must it be? Is it something real to see? Or something tangible to touch? Dose it arrive with balloons and such? Was it real in …
I can’ say sorry anymore
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Sealed in dark form, logic lost, Pain burns from where the blood flowed, Battered, bruised from mental assault, The self, controlled like a puppet, I taste the vile words spewed from the dark and pain inside, Regret takes the strangle …
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Tagged Anxiety, behavior, Borderline personality, Dark thoughts, Depression, Dystopia, Fears, Negative feelings, Self harm, Self Image, Suicidal thoughts, thoughts
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Just can say the words
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I am hurting, in pain, Please see my suffering. Like a trapped animal fear me, Show me kindness and see past the posture and snarls. Be my Androcles I will be your lion, Show me you care more than …
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Tagged Anxiety, Dark thoughts, Depression, Dystopia, Fears, thoughts
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I know you
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In guise is see you, Dress with words of kindness, Coloured with compassion, Bejewelled with new hopes. I lick at your lies, Consume your betrayals, I feast on the chaos and the pain you bring, As I starve for …
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Tagged Anxiety, behavior, Borderline personality, Depression, Fears, feeling, Negative feelings, Self Image, thoughts
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Mirror
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Mirror; mirror lie to me, I cannot see the flaws in me! I know they are there! They have to be, While watching others from the edge of the digital sea. Mirror; mirror it has to be, The mental …
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Tagged Borderline personality, Negative feelings, Self Image, thoughts
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Holding it together
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How are you doing? If I told you would run and hide, If you knew me! You would know! If I fell apart could you put me back together? Holding back the urges, I spit forward monosyllabic responses, How …
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Tagged Borderline personality, feeling, Self Image, Suicidal thoughts, Therapy
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Scared alone and silent
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Troubles come in waves crashing against my mind, As I sit and stare through the window scared of the world outside, I feel the fear like tentacles inside, Delusions weaving stress and strife, Pain grows but never shows, A glint …
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Tagged Borderline personality, Depression, Dystopia, Fears, Negative feelings, Self harm, Suicidal thoughs, thoughts
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Frozen Feelings
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Cold and numb, feelings frozen in place, Refusing to feel, secure in my isolation, My emotions scattered across the wasteland of my soul, My darkest nights are a playground in which fear and demons run free. Alone not lonely …
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Tagged Anxiety, behavior, Borderline personality, Dark thoughts, Depression, Fears, Negative feelings, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, thoughts
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