Different strokes for different folks — Introduction In the psychiatric community, borderline personality disorder (BPD) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) tend to be spoken in the same breath. Diagnosed with BPD? Then you need to enter DBT treatment. …

Finding connection in a lonely world. — Since the beginning, humans have needed others — regardless of gender, ethnicity, or geographic location, we are social creatures. Quality relationships make us happier, healthier, and more productive. Social support buffers stress and fulfills an important psychological need to belong and feel accepted by others. In an ideal, harmonious world…

Changes to the Self from Transient Ischemic Attacks — I had an attic brain. I’d suffered two Transient Ischemic Attacks in close succession and my leftovers were a languishing left side and a brain which felt like an open, empty attic with a skylight. My left prefrontal cortex was impaired and, as these things do happen, my functioning right-side…

What have you got to prove? — When I came into recovery I was urged to attend twelve-step meetings. I was resistant, to say the least. After some really annoying and convincing people strongly suggesting it — over and over and over again — I began to think they might actually want me to get better. …

长期的covid，幸存者的内gui和疾病之间 - 自从我上次更新以来已经有一段时间了……实际上，有些人可能认为我已经从长期的covid中完全康复了。但是，尽管我希望是这种情况，但我很遗憾地写道我没有。我会承认，我的生活质量有了显着...

Finding words for a friend I lose again and again. — I don’t know the price of your ticket for take-off, on one of those brilliant, doomed missiles that ignite and burst above mere earth, pointed so fast and so certain. You were once aligned with Heaven. And you always soared, but never enough to clip the sun. But then you…

Spoiler: it was a liar — I don’t remember the first time I hated my body or forced it into clothes that didn’t fit. But I remember the first time I intentionally starved it when I had truly had enough of wanting the impossible ideal and felt ready to work for it. …