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BPD Acceptance & Awareness Flag

While there is a popular black and white BPD flag, I wanted to create one with more colour to show the depth of BPD. I was inspired by the NPD Awareness Flag by npdsafe, and the alternate NPD flag by npdflag to make this. I followed the amount of stripes the NPD flag has as to show solidarity between cluster B disorders.

Stripe Meanings:

(#000000) Black： Duality, Emptiness, and Support —

Black and White both represent the duality of BPD. Along with that, black represents feellings of being void, hollow and emptiness. It also represents support for people with BPD.

(#711f49) Purple-Red： Negative Intense Emotions —

Purple-Red, Dark Magenta, represents intense negative emotions, both internal and external. This includes overwhelming feelings of rejection, feelings of abandonment, anger, and more.

(#e24069) Pink-Red： Positive Intense Emotions —

Pink-Red, Lipstick Pink, represents intense positive emotions, both internal and external. This includes feelings of europhoria, love, healing, wellbeing, and more.

(#d6cce8) Light Lavender： Fear and Dissociation —

Light Lavender, Haze, represents fear, fear of abandonment, paranoia, dissociation, loss of sense of identity, feeling out of touch with reality, derealisation, and depersonalisation.

(#ada1d3) Dark Lavender：Solidarity and Remembrance. —

Dark Lavender, Periwinkle, represents solidarity between people with BPD and other cluster B disorders. It also serves as a reminder of the different ways BPD presents itself in different people. It also serves rememberance of those with BPD who have passed away.

(#ffffff) White：Duality and Recovery —

White and Black both represent the duality of BPD. Along with that, white represents recovery, and that people with BPD are not hopeless.

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Alternative BPD Awareness & Acceptance Flag : Moonflower Symbol

I was told that the symbol on the flag I made is actually the discordian symbol ! To avoid using a religious symbol in this awareness flag, I made a poll a while back asking about different flowers we could use. The most popular vote was a moonflower. And so this symbol has been made.

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my take on a BPD FLAG & SYMBOL !!

this was highly inspired by these NPD flags and symbol! my motivation behind was simply that I was yet to find a BPD symbol I liked (aesthetically), and I really loved the NPD symbol, so I wanted a similar design! I also made the flags just to match :3

the flower in the symbol is a moon flower / tropical white morning glory / ipomoea alba. I chose this as it was the most popular flower voted on @bpdflag's poll for flowers that could represent / be a symbol for BPD. I also personally really liked the meaning behind this flower and how it could be a symbol for BPD!

the flowers only open up at night-time / under moonlight, which could be symbolic to pwBPD opening up under attention, love, care, and reassurance (especially from one's FP). when they close up, it can symbolise a pwBPD closing up without the attention and love. they typically open up within a few minutes, which can symbolise rapid BPD mood swings. moonflowers seeds are poisonous to humans, but not life-threatening. when closed up, they resemble a spiral, which can symbolise the spirals of emotions a pwBPD may go through, or spiralling when they don't have support. many articles state that the morning glory flowers can symbolise love, affection, deep relationships, unrequited love, love that is in vain, mortality, renewal, and new beginnings. (1, 2, 3)

I edited multiple (free to use) icons together to make this, here are the credits for those: morning glory icon from Icogenix on thenounproject, leaves icons from Isaac haq on thenounproject, swirl from freepik on flaticon

plain symbol PNG, as well as a black and white version for recolouring (lmk if you want me to post the individual parts as pngs)

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npd flags by inkdaemon on pinterest

npd flag by npdflag with a different symbol, vulnerable/covert npd, grandiose/overt npd, grandiose vulnerable npd, npd4npd/narc4narc, asd npd, dissociative system npd, nbpd (uses the bpd flag by @bpdflag), psychotic npd

How do you deal with BPD rage ? How do you handle your anger? What do you do to redirect your anger?

#lets share advice !#im debating on asking questions like this every week for people to share what has helped them #actually borderline #bpd #actually bpd #borderline pd #borderline personality disorder #mental health awareness #bpd rage #bpd anger #advice #bpd awareness #bpd splitting

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saw these flags a whiiiile ago, and all of them were either too eyestrainy for me or the colors—in my mind—just weren't how i saw dpd. so i edited the one i liked best and, voila! no one has to use it. this is mostly for me, but i wanted to sharee

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dont have many followers here—but its fine! just posting a small update. i made a few revisions to it since i hadn't really liked how this was looking since idk it didnt feel v cohesive! i really like how this one turned out tho :3

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New BPD Flag Symbol Ideas;;

a. Moonflower

b. Belladonna / Deadly Nightshade

c. Bleeding Heart

d. [Other]

Voting ended onDec 21, 2024

a. Moonflower 🌙

@gum1w0rms suggested moonflowers ! Moonflowers, otherwise known as tropical white morning-glories, or Ipomoea alba, are white flowers that only open up typically about once a year during the nighttime. The symbolism they came up with is that moonflowers are a representation of a person with BPD. That they open up under the moon (which the moon, in this, represents attention from your favourite person, love, help, confirmation, good days, etc!) and they close up when that attention, validation, and love, goes away ! Here is the post they made explaining their idea !

Moonflowers are also toxic flowers to the touch, but they do not cause death.

When the flower is closed, they look a bit like a spiral to me, which reminds me of spiralling out of control when you do not have support.

The colour white represents innocence, cleanliness, emptiness, and peace in western culture, while in eastern culture it can represent death, mourning, and the afterlife.

b. Belladonna / Deadly Nightshade 🟣

A friend of mine suggested deadly nightshade. Deadly nightshade, otherwise known as belladonna, or atropa bella-donna, is a poisonous purple flower with black berries with star like leaves. This flower that can kill you at higher doses and cause nervous system failure.

This flower reminds me of hurting those who hurt you back. It is only deadly if you ingest it. It could represent reacting to abandonment, and the trauma we struggled with to become this way. We were hurt, so we hurt back.

Despite the poison, the belladonna has a lot of medicinal purposes as well. During war time, it was used as a psychedelic and for pain management during surgery. Along with that it was used to create medication for the stomach and cramps.

The star like leaves around the fruit reminds me that people with BPD are still shining despite the struggles and traumas we have faced.

The colour purple represents wealth, prosperity, mental and spiritual awareness in Eastern cultures. In western cultures it represents royalty and creativity. It is considered a mysterious colour as well.

c. Bleeding Heart 💓

The bleeding heart flower, otherwise known as Dicentra, is a pink flower that’s head looks like a heart with a white tear drop. It represents deep pain, unrequited love, and rebirth.

My idea with this flower is that it is representative of the pain and sorrow we go through and how deeply we feel emotions.

The bleeding heart is toxic when digested, causing seizures and liver damage.

The colour pink is representative of celebration, hospitality, and trust in the east. In the west it symbolises calm and tenderness. It also is representative of marriage, femininity and love in both cultures.

d. [Other]

If you have any other ideas please don’t be afraid to add!

I will make another poll if this has enough reach!

Some other flower symbolism:

Tulips: Representative of DPD, besides the Sun Rise/Sun Set symbol.

Orchids: Representative of Intersex People.

Roses: Representative of Hypersexuality / Hyperrose.

Daffodils: Representative of NPD.

It would be nice to make all Personality Disorder flags have specific flowers representative to them, or concepts.

For instance,

Cluster A, B, and C all having flower symbols

Cluster A being shells, stones, or minerals of some kind, Cluster B being plants and flowers, Cluster C being weather related.

What do you think?

I want to create an alternative symbol for the BPD Acceptance and Awareness Flag, but I am still looking for inspiration.

The creator of the account npdflag created a symbol based around the narcissus flower / daffodil. The narcissus flower is generally used to represent NPD as the word, narcissist, comes from the greek myth of Narcissus.

Does anyone have anything that they connect to BPD? Myths, flowers, symbols in general? I believe as a flower, the bleeding heart would work well for BPD, but it is also associated with unrequited love. But in any case, does anyone have any good symbol, story, item, object, that they relate to BPD that they would like to share?

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