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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
Bob the BPD bird
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He fly’s in each day, With the words I cannot say, He makes me smile, And gives BPD style, Song of your not alone, With words / thoughts that we are all prone, Hateful thoughts the spotlight shines, Exposing …
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Tagged Borderline personality, Peace, Self Image, thoughts
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The Now and Then
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I was wild like the wind, I ran and jumped and cried with pain and joy, I knew what love and laughter was, I was many, the multitude and whole But time battered me, and I changed, The skin of …
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Tagged Anger, Anxiety, Borderline personality, Dark thoughts, Depression, Dystopia, Negative feelings, Self Image
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They tell you what?
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They tell you its food, But with every bite, Empty hunger – filled by Cancerous growths, They tell you it is life, But the chains of work constrict, Hope of death, a dream of sweet release, They tell …
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Tagged Dark thoughts, Dystopia, Fears, feeling, Love, Negative feelings, Self Image, thoughts, Todays World
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Love on the borderline
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Why would you love a thing like me? Untrusting with reason but you I give trusts keep, My screams of pain the violent mood, The childish acts… Your leave soon. I burden you with others sins, A battle you …
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Tagged Anger, Anxiety, Borderline personality, Dark thoughts, Dystopia, Fears, feeling, Love, Negative feelings, Self Image
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Just Borderline
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So close I can smell my dreams, A feast of desires and hopes, The smorgasbord of possibilities, But I starve… Mental illness traps me, Torturing me with medicated hopes, Tormenting me with chats of repeating pasts, But I think …
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Tagged Anger, Anxiety, behavior, Borderline personality, Dark thoughts, Depression, Dystopia, Fears, feeling, Self Image, thoughts
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I long for…
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The day I wake with eyes close, Wings will grow and carry me from pain, I will fly high above my memories, And dance with long lost dreams Darkness will solidify and I will wrap myself in the night, …
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Tagged feeling, Hope, Imagist poem, Love, Peace, Religion, Self Image, thoughts
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When the mask slips and falls away
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Am I who they see, The persona or the real me, In the mirror I do look, Can’t find the thing they took, Lost and lone a masked man, Confused alone without a plan, I have no …
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Tagged Anxiety, behavior, Borderline personality, Dark thoughts, Depression, Fears, feeling, Negative feelings, Self Image
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Behind the Mask
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Mundane misty morning mark the day ahead, As I breath in half life to purpose, exhaling drive, Hands grasp at hope, for it to vanish like phantoms, The bleach out sun obscures visions of substance, Time to withdraw to the …
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Tagged Anxiety, Fears, feeling, Negative feelings, Self Image, thoughts
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Lost looking for reality
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I walk alone across the battlements, My mood the colour of long shadows, Ready to defend against invisible foes, Apathetic to defeat The sound of solitude pounds like tap shoes on cobbles, To scared and scared to name the …
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Tagged Anger, Anxiety, behavior, Dark thoughts, Depression, feeling, Happy, Negative feelings, Self Image, thoughts, visual peom
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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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