Bordering on Madness

Hi. Welcome to my blog. My name is Salem [he/him] and I live with borderline personality disorder, PTSD, anxiety, and depression. This is where I write about my experiences and share coping strategies that have worked for me [primarily DBT skills and radical acceptance]. Keep in mind that I am not a therapist nor am I an advice blog however I want to do what I can to help others know they are not alone and there is hope.

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my brain or as I like to call it, the suffer contraption

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Pedophiles don’t belong in the LGBT community. Go die in a fire. You are not welcome.

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Actually we do because lgbt is about celebrating the weird/taboo so yeah

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nope. nope. no it’s not. that’s incredible homophobic/transphobic. you don’t belong in the lgbt community.

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Please unfollow me if you believe pedophilia counts as a group in the LGBT+ community

actually, if you’re a pedophile please unfollow me. I don’t want that shit any where near me

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When you’re Fine™

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🌺BPD AWARENESS ASKS🌺

Reblog if you want people to ask you questions about bpd!

peach — do you have an fp

blueberry — on a scale of 1 to 10 how impulsive are you

apple — do you have psychotic symptoms

banana — whats your current mood

strawberry — what age were you diagnosed

honeydew — self dx or pro dxd

cherry — are you currently in therapy

grape — how do you feel about stigma

orange — do you partake in risky behaviors

raspberry — have you ever experienced hallucinations

lemon — do you like your psychiatrist

tangerine — how do you feel about being diagnosed

plum — how do you cope

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Depression: No do thing. Tired.

Me: Okay well. Maybe if I go to sleep super duper early, I’ll get a decent amount of sleep.

Insomnia: You Fool. You absolute goddamn idiot

[lioness--hart]

Insomnia: You Are Awake.

Me: Okay well. Maybe now I can get some stuff done.

Depression: You fool. You absolute goddamn idiot

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Once my friend Henry was accused of wearing wireless headphones by a substitute so she said for him to hand them over so he took them off and handed them to her. Then later on she asked him a question and he didn’t respond so she said it louder and he still didn’t respond. She asked why he was not responding and he said “I can’t understand you ma'am, you took my hearing aids.”

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HOLY SHIT

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one time we had a sub that was handing back papers and called my name. I asked if someone could grab it for me and she started mocking me for not even standing up. taunting me asking why I was not walking up to the front to get the paper myself.

my classmates went dead silent and after the sub’s laughter ended someone informed her that the wheelchair parked nearby belonged to me

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I had a sub in English once, on presentation day. And everyone goes up and does their thing, and then its my turn. The whole time im stuttering and mixing up my words, having to stop and re-say my sentences. The rest of the class is used to this and claps. However, by the time its over, the teacher is 100% done.

Starts saying horrible thing about how im going to have to get over my ‘fear of public speaking’ and how she’s heard 8 year olds give better presentations (plus worse things but I don’t really member them). By then im in tears and on the brink of a panic attack, and then she starts telling me off for crying The rest of the class is horrified. Then this boy stands up. He never been my friend and we never really got along, but he’d never bullied me. He told her in a pissed off, cold voice that in freshmen year I got a concussion and that I never really recovered from it, so all that was medical related and I couldn’t help it. Then he starts telling her off and the rest of the class joins him.   The teacher is mortified and tries to cover her ass, but the whole class walked out and that boy took me by the shoulders and we all walked to the principles office and told him what had happened. Lets just say she isn’t teaching anymore. Also, turns out that boy had a sister like me, who couldn’t really speak. We’ve been best friends for 8 years and i’ll be his best woman at his wedding next year.  The moral is that Teachers, even subs, and adults shouldn’t scold kids before knowing the whole story, because shit like that can fuck up kids self-esteem for the rest of their life. 

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When I was thirteen, I had to have spinal surgery. When my doctor said I was allowed to attend school again, he said I had to use a wheelchair when on school grounds. My first day back at school, my special-ed teacher had put up a banner in her classroom that read, “There is no elevator to success. You must take the stairs.” I asked what that meant regarding my wheelchair, and she gave me detention for “disrespecting her authority”. The next week she gave us a homework assignment to design a poster that could potentially be used as a Public Service Advertisement. On the due-date, I handed this in.

My special-ed teacher was fucking OUTRAGED. She wanted me expelled for ridiculing her authority in front of the other students. The principal proclaimed my work to be “a masterpiece of satirical genius” and vetoed the special-ed teacher’s attempt to expel me.

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Reblogging this post yet again, this time for the masterpiece of satirical genius. Hope the teacher got in trouble.

[borderingonmadness]

Been having some odd experiences and I’m not really sure how to classify them. I think the best word I can come up with is “splitting.” I work in a very social/out in the public job. When I’m at work I can, more or less, handle it just fine. However after I’ve had a couple of nights off, the evening before I go back in I get hit with this wave of anxiety and fear. It almost feels like I’m walking in on my first day despite my months of experience. It’s like I’ve dissociated from everything I know about myself and my position. I wonder what’s up with that. Any one else experience similar?

[buffysummers]

We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster, that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty, and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But, to make yourself feel nothing, so as not to feel anything… What a waste. Call Me By Your Name (2017) dir. Luca Guadagnino

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“No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.”

— Mooji (via lazyyogi)

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Depression – A Mother’s Perspective

Depression is a serious mental disorder that shouldn’t be taken lightly. It affects approximately 300 million people worldwide. It is estimated that one million people globally commit suicide. These statistics are unfortunate and shouldn’t be happening. One life lost is too much. The sad truth is that suicide catches everyone’s attention. It’s the actions leading to it that go unnoticed.

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Wow

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Eibsee by Adrian Vesa

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Daisies being happy☺️

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I post on Tumblr when I’m feeling depressed.

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Cultural Loneliness: What’s it Like Being a Third Culture Kid

Last year, Jenny Kang participated in a TEDx Talk at Saint Louis University Madrid, covering the topic of cultural loneliness and being a “third culture kid.”  With increasing mobility and interconnectedness between different countries, many people are exposed and become a part of multiple cultures.  Identifying with multiple cultures allows for a greater perspective and understanding of the world, but also creates a new set of unique obstacles as one introspectively reflects and constructs their identity.  Jenny is a third culture kid and as a psychology student, she has previously written articles for us at Psych2Go. We thought it would be great to catch up with her and learn more about her TED Talk, cultural loneliness, and its effect on identity and otherness.

Hi Jenny!  Thanks for taking time to answer some questions.  To start out, please introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about you.  What are three words to describe you? Can you describe your educational/work background?

My name is Yeonhee Jenny Kang and I was born in Seoul, Korea. I moved to the U.S. when I was 5 years old and spent 11 years there in five different states before I moved back to Korea to spend the rest of my high school years. After a year of working in Seoul, I moved to Madrid, Spain to pursue my undergraduate studies in Psychology and Spanish Literature. While attending university, I……

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