Make BPD Stigma-Free

By Joyce Savage

What’s it like to live with Borderline Personality Disorder? Or to be a “Quiet Borderline” and misdiagnosed for two decades? Find out inside!

People with BPD have very intense emotions which get them into trouble a lot of the time. It can cause a lot of pain and heartache. But there is help in the form of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy or DBT. It helped me recover, and it can help you too.

People with BPD may see things in black-and-white, good or bad, all or nothing terms. But we can learn to see the areas of gray.

I never felt like a real person. Ever since I was little, but especially in my teens, I felt like a shadow: invisible, blending into the darkness. No substance, nothing. Never standing out, except to be bullied at school, which affects me to this day. I’m ready to come out of the shadows and tell my story now. I hope you learn about it and help me fight stigma and raise awareness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joyce Savage
• Release date: Sep 28, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370040827

Joyce Savage

My name is Joyce. I am 49 years old, married with two kids and two grandchildren. I enjoy writing, photography and baking. I suffer from/have suffered from: Borderline Personality Disorder, Depression, Post-Partum Depression, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Agoraphobia, Dermatillomania and Insomnia. I take Cymbalta and Abilify to manage my symptoms. I have recently graduated from therapy after about 15 years. I took a DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy) program several years ago to learn how to manage my emotions better. I did a lot better until recently when a lot of stuff happened which is extremely difficult to deal with. I am revisiting my binders from that program and trying to implement those skills as needed. I feel so alone a lot of the time, like no one can possibly understand what I’m going through. It’s so hard for people without BPD to understand what it’s like. I believe they can, but usually only to a point. I would like to see things less in black-and-white, and more in lots of colours. I am in the process of writing a book about Borderline Personality Disorder. I’m not sure what it’s going to be like. I’ll find out as I write it and it comes to me. I’ll find out right along with you as you read it. Follow my blog on my path to recovery. I hope you will learn more about BPD along with me.

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Make BPD Stigma-Free!

By Joyce Savage

(c) 2017 Joyce Savage

From the author of the blog Make BPD Stigma-Free!

We do the best we can with what we have and when we know better, we do better.

- Maya Angelou

Table Of Contents:

Introduction

Acknowledgements

DSM Criteria

What Is BPD?

What You See

Common Misconceptions Shattered

How Do I Help Them?

What Is Validation?

Why You Should Never Self-Diagnose

What Is DBT?

Orchids and Dandelions

DSM Criteria – In Detail

What Are Some Good Traits of Being Borderline?

Quicksand Analogy

Borderline Poetry: I Am The Shadow

Video: The Quiet Borderline: The Forgotten Ones

About The Author

Connect With Me

Introduction

Why I Wrote This Book:

Why did I write this book? Most books about BPD are written from the point of view of people without Borderline Personality Disorder or Non-BPD’s. They describe what to do to put up with us horrible Borderlines or else why to leave us Monsters. I wanted to write a book based on the point of view of an actual BPD sufferer, currently in recovery, one that is written with compassion, empathy and understanding.

I hope this book gives you comfort

Reviews for Make BPD Stigma-Free

[jenelle · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I really enjoyed this book. It made me feel so seen & understood truly. Thank you.