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By Carrie Starke Imagine driving down the road one day with your window down. You're enjoying a nice breeze and the radio is on. The songs aren't your favorite, but you like them because you know all of the words to almost all of them. Feeling happy and carefree. Then it stops. Everything just...

Getting your "buttons" pushed or getting "triggered" is an opportunity to heal and grow. The more hurts we've endured and the weaker our boundaries, the more reactive we are to people and events. Our triggers - our buttons - are our wounds. Codependents are off the charts when it comes to...

The behavior of the mentally ill patient is not qualitatively different from that of healthy persons or from his own behavior before his illness developed. In fact, the behavior and the thinking of the mentally ill are strange only because they are exaggerated or inappropriate to particular...

You have to find out the meaning of life because you need this important information in order to understand what you must look for when you think, in order to solve your problems, and in order to make the right decisions. If you don't know the meaning of life you don't know what to desire, or...

Nearly everyone with Borderline Personality Disorder who participates in therapy knows about the phenomenon called transference. Transference occurs when the patient's expectations, desires and feelings are put onto another person, usually the therapist. The types of transference issues the...

I want to start with a big one. My borderline. I took the next info out of the official manual. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment; this does not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in criterion 5 A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships...

So I've been somewhat keeping closed off in my few posts so far, not really opening up about myself or why I might have an interest in posting on these forums, so let me start to break that seal just a little bit and ask you all your opinion on something. Let me preface this by saying that I...

I have been on Qudapin since the summer and it’s been real hard to not want to end it all x

I’ve just calmed down today after calling a crisis hotline and doing some therapy exercises, guided meditation, breathing exercises and yoga. So, the slightest question from anyone else, I’d take it as “bossing me around”. Because I’m also paranoid and have BPD, I always take it as a personal...

Hi everyone, I have something I have to get out....another event. I can say that life has pretty much sucked for me, like trying to walk around in wet cement and if asked if I'd do it all again I'd say hell no everytime. My wife surprised me a couple months ago by agreeing to foster two 5 day...

Because I also suffer from DID, I don’t even notice others’ existence. I don’t really see them as basic necessities in life, but something stressful, melodramatic and bothersome for me personally. How do you feel about others in your life personally?

I'm so sick of my life. Every day I deny myself food. I don't eat the food I want to eat. Every day I deny myself all of the cigarettes I want to smoke. Every day I deny myself the alcohol I want to drink. My whole life is run by denying myself of the enjoyable things. And I am sick to death of...