I'm coming up on my fourth cycle since I stopped taking birth control! This is exciting for me, because the further away from that day I get, the more I feel like I'm returning to who I used to be four years ago. Four months out, and I'm starting to notice a pattern in my … Continue reading Life After the Pill, Pt. 4
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Love Me, Need Me, Hold Me
Do you ever feel like you crave affection so much that you need it to survive, like water? I feel this in phases. Sometimes, I'm fine. Other times, I practically need an IV of affection, constantly flowing through me so I can't wander off. That's one of my personal struggles with borderline personality disorder; if … Continue reading Love Me, Need Me, Hold Me
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Life After the Pill, Pt. 3
When I started thinking about getting off the pill, I did a lot of research, sometimes excessively. One thing I remember reading quite often was that when you stop taking the pill, you have to take various supplements to help your body replenish what the pill depleted from it. I decided for myself that I … Continue reading Life After the Pill, Pt. 3
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Sensing Things
One of the prominent symptoms of BPD for me personally is the unfortunate ability to basically sense how someone important or close to me is feeling, and the tendency to connect it to impending doom. I've done this for as long as I can remember, and I hate it! My husband is not a man … Continue reading Sensing Things
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Past Mistakes
I realized the other day that even though I'm moving forward with therapy, even though I'm making this attempt at improving myself for those around me, I have left so much damage behind. It absolutely slapped me in the face that maybe therapy and an attempt at changing myself isn't even worth it because the … Continue reading Past Mistakes
BPD: A Journey 