Mental Health – Page 7 – Me, Myself and Who am I?

Sorry.

I am only sorry to myself for allowing myself to submit.

Please

Today I choose to release myself from the confines of requiring someone else to validate me.

Finding myself

Arguably the furthest I have traveled from home has been in the places where I have lost sight of myself

You may be wondering about the name of my blog. It seems such a bold thing standing there on the front page. All about me? No. Why the name then?Let me expand. Yes, this blog is centred on personal experience. My personal experience involves living with BPD/EUPD amongst other, physical conditions. The narrative of BPD…… Continue reading What’s in a name?

For me, for my children, for advocacy

Why do you blog? I have always had a deep need to express myself and my emotions. I hold big big emotions, indescribably intense and passionate outpourings from my soul exude themselves, in often, self destructive ways when I keep them caged too long. As a child I had a wild imagination and penchant for…… Continue reading For me, for my children, for advocacy

Thankfulness

sometimes it involves facing a difficult situation and using a different lens to view it.

Typing through the night

When there is no one else but my own company, everyone else is sound asleep, I am the most alive I have ever been. It’s as if everything is amplified. Sounds that you would never notice in the hustle and bustle of the daytime start to echo around the house and the streets outside. Streetlights…… Continue reading Typing through the night

How did I end up here?

Ultimately my aim in freeing myself of some negative labels and narratives that had defined me and had followed me around for most of my life, was somehow lost amongst the debris.

About me – Updated version

I know I can be hard to decipher, and sometimes my messages and good intentions get lost along the way.

Things Lockdown Taught Me.

2020, a year most of us will remember with dread. A year that stood still, and felt relentless. For myself it became rapidly overwhelming, and increasingly I began to scrutinise everything; how I was performing as a mother, how good of an educator I was, how alone I felt I was becoming and cut off…… Continue reading Things Lockdown Taught Me.