My experience with my BPD diagnosis

Inspirational quotes, positivity, lessons, mistakes and a collective sharing of our experiences. Please feel free to share. (I apologize in advance: I cannot offer medical advice. I am not a professional and please call 911/seek professional help if it is an emergency)

[coping-with-bpd]

Gotten into conflict with a friend who I’m now realizing I’ve outgrown and also don’t really respect as a person. I should probably stop being their friend.

I shouldn’t have said anything and done a slow pull-apart as to not drive a permanent wedge between us.

But if I know my therapist at all she would say to share my actual thoughts and feelings with people rather than pretending there’s nothing wrong.

But if I do that all the time, I would be burning bridges all the time because in all reality I don’t respect a lot of people.

[literaryvein]

L. V., excerpts from a past life

[coping-with-bpd]

I fucking hate everyone so much

[cersplace]

─ Hisham Siddiqi

[slfcare]

You’ll come to find out that it’s hard to believe in things until you give them life. How kindness seems so unfamiliar until you’re the one who’s actively trying to be kind to others. How dreams seem far away until you do your research and try your best. How friends seem like a foreign concept until you start to ask people to lunch more often. The best things in life don’t come find you as you sit and wait. You have to go out there and decide they exist.

[wvterways]

life really is so simple when you sit back and realise you don’t actually have to do a lot of things. i don’t have to be on my phone constantly. i don’t have to sit inside all day. i don’t have to reply to peoples messages straight away. i don’t have to have what’s in my fridge. i can go out and get groceries and make things that I’m craving. i can go on a walk. i can turn my phone off for a day or two. i can sit and read for hours on end. i can journal for as long as i want. i can mediate. i can cook. i can clean. i can breathe deeply. i can get myself a tea or a coffee. i can have meaningful conversations with my family. i don’t have to be in a constant state of “online”. i can disconnect. I’m not obliged to be here. my name isn’t being called out on a list. i can leave. i can take time away. i am allowed to live.

[ex1st]

✨I hope you have an amazing day✨

[lousydrawingsforgoodpeople]

[what-the-hyuck]

I'm not sure if this will come out right but:

Being loved is NOT a reward for being beneficial or useful in any way. You don't become less deserving of being loved if you aren't productive for a day or if you have a bad day and can't get out of bed.

I promise. Being loved has nothing to do with how you "help" the world or those around you.

[softdaisie]

maybe mediocrity isn’t wrong. maybe you don’t need to be the best at everything you do. maybe you don’t need to be the best at anything you do. it’s ok to simply do things because you enjoy doing them. its ok to not want to advance in your job. nothing has to be a competition. you don’t need to be better than anyone. you can do things just because they’re fun. you don’t need to read up on the history, and know everything about it. its ok to just exist. its ok.

[libraalynn]

[conscious-love]

I guess that's just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

Lauren Oliver

[wetheurban]

WE THE URBAN

[libraalynn]

[violetvibrations]

@ madebynelson

[sunlitsuggestions]

healing is so hard. it takes time and energy and never goes quite how you expect. but it’s happening. you are getting a little further away from the bad days every moment. you’re doing so well.

[lazyyogi]

“People are starving for love, not knowing their heart is a magical kitchen. Open your heart. Open your magical kitchen and refuse to walk around the world begging for love. In your heart is all the love you need. Your heart can create any amount of love, not just for yourself, but for the whole world.”

— Don Miguel Ruiz