Roses, Tulips and BPD: Are You In The Right Garden?
Flowers as metaphors are frequently used to help people understand complex ideas. This includes people who are living with Borderline Personality Disorder.
Flowers as metaphors are frequently used to help people understand complex ideas. This includes people who are living with Borderline Personality Disorder.
There are many informational resources for people with BPD and for family members who have a loved one with BPD, but there is not as much for friends, despite the critical difference they can make in the lives of people with BPD.
In appreciating what we have, we invite important changes to take place in our brain and body.
No one is born with BPD. Rather it develops over time, especially in very sensitive people who experience highly invalidating environments in their early years. And that many of the most invalidating moments occur within the dynamic of interpersonal relationships…
Concerns have been raised in the online mental health community about the news that Instagram has recently placed a warning message that appears when people search the site using the hashtag #BPD.
There were many people on Twitter this week who expressed feelings of loneliness. They felt that friends, family members or people on Twitter had forgotten about them. And, quite understandably, that was very painful.