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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
Talking About Self-harm
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Self-harm is not just about cutting or burning, its also excessive drinking or drug use and other things that you know will cause harm to your self. I like and many people with mental illness self harm and I can …
Posted in Personal Reflection, Updates-Musings-etc
Tagged behavior, Negative feelings, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Therapy
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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, …
Posted in BPD- poems, POEMS
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 …
Posted in BPD- poems, POEMS
Tagged Anxiety, behavior, Borderline personality, Dark thoughts, Depression, Dystopia, Fears, Negative feelings, Self harm, Self Image, Suicidal thoughts, 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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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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Shadow friend
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I can feel you their, The air vibrates with a dark glow, On which your whispers are carried, You move through the shadows, Dancing on the edge of my eye line, Form and formless you permeate my thoughts, Distracting logic …
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Tagged Anxiety, Depression, Negative feelings, Self harm, Self Image, Suicidal thoughts, thoughts
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Sitting in silence
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Voice choked fearful of speech, Noises in my head get louder, Heart pound and body shakes, The outside gets wider. Take a breath compose myself, Repeat the mantras Focus the breath Regain my calm. I try again body …
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Tagged Anxiety, Depression, feeling, Negative feelings, Suicidal thoughts
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Death by a thousand cuts
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Day by day By hand and word. The cuts form, Some run in blood, Some just of the mind. But I heal, Until a cut so deep will end me, A wrong word cuts, The world cuts I cut Blood …
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Tagged Borderline personality, Negative feelings, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts
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