Raising Awareness of BPD - Flipping the Script

Thank you for sharing @SanSan . Have you looked at online DBT courses? Spectrum VIC and Project Air in NSW often have free online sessions for people diagnosed with BPD. Some for for carers too.

Hope you get the support you deserve. Please don’t give up on looking for supports.

I’ve been through treatment for very acute BPD. I felt like I was destined to die. But I am alive for a reason - to share this hope.

For me, meds helped stabilise me so I could attend and engage in therapy. But the real work is done through talking therapy.

Please let me know how you go.

Thank you @BPDSurvivor, I'll take a look to see if there are any available online courses

I think for Spectrum, you need to book through Eventbrite. I am on their mailing list so they just send the emails to me @SanSan

As for Project Air, I just check out their website once every so often.

All the best.

Hi everyone!

I came across this online session running for people in Vic with BPD. It is an online psychoeducation session: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/online-psychoeducation-session-for-individuals-recently-diagnosed-with-bpd-registration-492160464197

It is free of charge.

@SanSan @Sirine @Melbpdptsd @Ferylgirl @Determined @Judi9877 - please tag anyone you know who may be interested.

Thanks @BPDSurvivor , I'm now on their mailing list 🙂

Thanks @tyme , I've registered 🙂

https://documents.uow.edu.au/content/groups/public/@web/@project-air/documents/doc/uow272098.pdf

This is the project air peer led sessions too. It is free also.

I’ve never posted here when I’m so upset. This post is for no one in particular but I just want to get things off my chest.

I haven’t cried for a very long time, but today I’m bawling. I’m so out of whack, so out of routine that I’ve found people around me so triggering.

In this emotionally amplified state, my head is turning to hurt myself. So much of me is wanting not to be around here. I’m tired of being around judgmental people. People who think they are perfect. People should just shut their gap.

As far as I’m concerned, he who has never done wrong can throw the first stone. Otherwise just shut up for goodness sake.

I am finding that because I am so out of control lately, I am somewhat rebelling against what I know is ‘right’ - like a form of risk taking? There’s obviously something brewing because my impulsivity was seen last night when I randomly spent several hundred dollars on an online shopping spree…

Im not asking to be taken out of this situation, nor for things to change. I know there’s a reason for this and that’s okay.

I just don’t know what the future holds. Thanks BPD. Love you for it. At least I can better articulate it now.

@BPDSurvivorbig hugs hun. I think it’s just the time of year. I too am having issues with people who are never wrong and like to blame me for the abuse they throw at me.

do you have a favourite safe place to go? I spent a week with my ex sister in law and found some peace. Maybe you have someone like that to go too. If not find somewhere in nature to just sit , chill maybe write.

I hope things settle for you xxx

Thanks for the hugs @Sirine .

I’ve never been good with changes to routine. When I’m not working, I really really struggle. Usually I’m okay, but to be honest, the 36 degree heat is really going to me.

I went swimming today for an hour or so. It was pretty okay. But when someone said something to me after, it was the last straw. I blew my top.

Can’t wait to the go back to the normality of work.

I’m just going to read tonight. Reading “Quit like a woman” by Holly Whitaker. Such a grounded book that talks about the sh*t life throws at you and how to overcome it. For this author, it was overcoming acoholism. Not that I’m a drinker - it just the idea of woman making a ‘radical choice’ to overcome behaviours…

Once again, thank you for your hugs.