Shifting Healing Focus Back to BPD Six months ago I admitted defeat to my alcoholism and walked back into the 12-Step rooms. These past six months my main focus as been managing my alcoholism. Now, with a new sponsor since my last BPD blog and a new home group – I feel invigorated as I…
Tag: Borderline Personality Disorder & Histrionic Personality Disorder – The Pros and Cons of Medical THC & CBD
Borderline Personality Disorder & Histrionic Personality Disorder – The Inner Critic
Whose Voice? The inner critic is not just for those with BPD and HPD. Everyone has them. What does one of my inner critics say? She says things like: People are mad at you. People do not like you. I am in trouble. I have done something wrong. Other people are right and I am…
Borderline Personality Disorder & Histrionic Personality Disorder – Everyday Noticing Of What It Is Like Living With BPD & HPD
Preamble In my blog Borderline Personality Disorder & Histrionic Personality Disorder – Anger & Lettin’ Loose & How BPD Am I? I wonder how BPD I am and how I have looked out there in the world. I also write about how I let myself sink into BPD intense emotions – but at that time…
Borderline Personality Disorder & Histrionic Personality Disorder – Anxious – Ambivalent (Preoccupied) Attachment Style
Jennifer May, PhD – Great DBT Resource on YouTube As I prepare for more focused Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) sessions with my therapist, I found a fantastic DBT resource on YouTube – Jennifer May, PhD. She has so many videos on DBT, as well as many other helpful videos such as attachment styles that I…
Borderline Personality Disorder & Histrionic Personality Disorder – Owning The Chaos – It Has Made My Life Interesting
If I Could Go Back and Do It Over Again… Would I? I think everyone has either had this thought or been asked this question. Recently, while eating my morning snack in the staff room, a teacher suddenly asked me if I would go back and do my life over again… I started to answer,…
Borderline Personality Disorder & Histrionic Personality Disorder – In Need of A Reset
Anger From the Amber Heard & Johnny Depp Mudslinging Trial I can’t even really type this without filling with anger. All I know is that, according to the news, Johnny Depp hired a psychiatrist to determine her state of mind – it being she has Borderline Personality Disorder and Histrionic Personality Disorder. I’m sure his…
Histrionic Personality Disorder – This One’s Hard To Process – Gonna Be Baby Steps
Books About HPD Are Scarce Basically, there seems to be very few books published specifically about Histrionic Personality Disorder. Lots of Information on HPD Via DSM 5 When I Google DSM 5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5-TR)) and Histrionic Personality Disorder, there is more selection. According to Therapedia: Histrionic Personality Disorder is a DSM-5…
Borderline Personality Disorder & Histrionic Personality Disorder – The Pros and Cons of Medical THC & CBD
First Then Last – If You Struggle With Addiction Like I Do – Beware But, I will come to this. Open License to Find My Own Dosage I began taking medically prescribed CBD for anxiety. I had open license – at a significant financial cost as medically prescribed THC and CBD is not covered under…