BPD

I have Borderline Personality Disorder, not a very good title, quite misleading and offensive. There is talk about changing it to something more positive.

http://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/borderline-personality-disorder-bpd/#.VfqTrmRViko

What are the symptoms of BPD?

You might be given a diagnosis of BPD if you experience at least five of the following things, and they’ve lasted for a long time or have a big impact on your daily life:

• You feel very worried about people abandoning you, and would do anything to stop that happening.
• You have very intense emotions that last from a few hours to a few days and can change quickly (for example, from feeling very happy and confident in the morning to feeling low and sad in the afternoon).
• You don’t have a strong sense of who you are, and it can change depending on who you’re with.
• You find it very hard to make and keep stable relationships.
• You act impulsively and do things that could harm you (such as binge eating, using drugs or driving dangerously).
• You have suicidal thoughts or self-harming behaviour.
• You feel empty and lonely a lot of the time.
• You get very angry, and struggle to control your anger.
• When very stressed, sometimes you might:
  • feel paranoid
    
  • have psychotic experiences, such as seeing or hearing things other people don’t
• feel numb or ‘checked out’ and not remember things properly after they’ve happened.

This piece of work by Alexander Milov immediately made me think of BPD, feeling like a child trapped in an adult’s body. That wasn’t the artists intention but that is what it communicated to me.

Alexander Milov

More about this here: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/09/milov-wireframe-sculpture/

And my book arrived!!!!