psa: don’t try to play armchair psychiatrist

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Thought this my be helpful and informative :)

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Rule 4 as a graphic, because wordy text posts can be difficult to engage with

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Told the person I recently started dating about my BPD and they responded in the best possible way

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a quick doodle while currently splitting

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Healthy Perspectives on Emotion

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Remember

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Dealing with this guy today

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I was painting a peaceful and pristine image of a deer drinking water, but I got enraged about something my bf did and this is what happened. Basically my BPD in a nutshell.

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this was very helpful for me when talking to my mom about my disorder. hopefully someone here can use it to help them too❤️

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A poem that helps me a lot.

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Definitely needs to be known moreso

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I struggle everyday with recognizing emotions, and this has helped a lot. Hope it helps others.

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Who do you think has best represented the spectrum of mental illness in film? For me it has always been Clementine

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Today in 'things that make me fucking livid' - this piece of shit ad... I forgot we are all diseased and abusive.

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Friendly reminder

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Or jumping from one obsession to another

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Here’s to mental growth! 💛

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I have a feeling this will work, I've always loved getting good grades!

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Depressive Logical Mistakes

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Constantly

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Hey guys, I've made a drawing related to my BPD, thought I would dare to share

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I Turned My BPD Breakdown Into This

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'You'd have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling'

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The road to recovery is long and hard. I hope to everyone suffering with what I have to get better.

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Some POSITIVE things about people with BPD

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So accurate

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Some of you allready saw part of this painting. This is the final version. Hope you enjoy it. Btw a little rumbling, I was diagnosed with BPD years ago, all this time I was denying it. But now I accepted it and now I understand how much it ruined my life. I’ll get help and hope I get better soon.

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Finally got around to making some flash cards! Woo.

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A piece of hope

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I’ve been crying in bed for days so today i finally got up at 2pm and did a thing

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Yep.

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when i stopped cutting, Watercolor, 11x13

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I got this tattoo earlier this year. I just keep looking at it.

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How you know it's getting bad again

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Starting DBT today. Wish me luck

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Wondering if anybody else can really relate to this

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I started keeping an 'art' journal, my spin on a classic BPD sentiment...

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Bpd awareness month! Here is something to share with friends and family

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It's BPD AWARENESS MONTH guys!

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A quick and useful guide to unhelpful thinking styles.

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Therapy.

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Done with SI.. Got a tattoo to cover my worst self injury scars

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Me ever since the mood stabilizers kicked in

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is this an accurate representation of BPD?

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When you're on a high

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Just started writing. Felt like it summed up my BPD perfectly.

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This pretty much sums me up

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saw this on r/schizophrenia and thought you guys might relate.

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this made me so uncomfortable

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Here’s a quick sketch I’ve been thinking about for a while. Anyone else feel like there’s always fighting going on in their heads?

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Yeah, that's pretty accurate

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Story of my life

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I created a cheat sheet to help me work through relationship anxiety

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Seems about right

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Saw this on twitter and it hit home hard for me

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Even my book is sending me warnings about my unhealthy feelings

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BPD in a nutshell.

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For anyone dealing with the addiction side of things, let me tell you that accomplishing this has been pivotal in subsiding most of my BPD symptoms.

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I'm laughing because it's funny but also because I'm in pain

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me on the daily

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Hey, this painting is an expression of what I’m going trough every day. I have this tought at the back of my head nagging me im not good enough for art or to do anything with my life. I keep battling with myself every day.

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I drew this to make me feel better

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Come on brain

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Getting sober, hopefully it'll help my BPD symptoms.

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A piece I did recently depicting how having BPD feels for me. The masks were inspired by another art post I saw on here a while back

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The best way I can show how I feel is through art

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It’s okay, I promise.

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Being a good person

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It’s been a while since I posted my previous art but I wanted to share this piece I did, “Dissociation”. It’s difficult to explain and easier to draw it for me.

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Maybe this will help someone?

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I was struggling with some urges today so I made these to distract myself!

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Dissociation

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Everyday I'm like

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Rinse and repeat

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Survival Infograph

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I recently posted about why cannabis isn't helpful for me - a lot of you responded saying it used to work for you, but now it makes you feel bad or anxious. I saw this article on Vice today and thought it was very relevant.

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I did an art series on my symptoms, and this is my favourite.

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Control your emotions. [OC]

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DAE Feel this way with their lover(s)?

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Found this in my notes and lol’d. My assistant manager was literally bullying me and this was a note I made about one day.

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Am I okay?

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What BPD feels like for me

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I'm so proud of myself

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a summary of my day

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Neighbor Came Over and Apologized Because Her Husband Accidentally Opened My Mail. Now Taking Bets on if They'll Ever Talk to Me Again

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F-U YOU TOO, GOOGLE!

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I made myself a bingo card...

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I just saw this on Instagram, and I don’t know what happened to me

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Surviving through BPD

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My boyfriend got me these because we both know I don’t have enough... 😂

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I figured you would like this

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Just wanted to share a doodle—how I feel having BPD.

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PSA: Today is Self Injury Awareness Day

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You can use and over All over mood tracker (prt5.2) but for BPD I find this more helpful to see what I really feel all day. And to peg how quickly or drastic the changes are. prt5

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What BPD is to me

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It was a different time

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found this in /r/heavymind, hit close to home.

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Not sure if this fits here, but useful image to show that trauma can be large or small, hidden or visible.

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Decided to draw what a good day with nearing darkness feels like

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I was reading this book of mine, and I came across this. Don’t you think it’s way too relatable?

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I had no idea this was possible

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Some days I'm a storm cloud

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It's fine, I didn't like you anyways!

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It be like that

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UPDATED BPD infographic for BPD awareness month!:)

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had a sudden urge to draw this a few months ago, didn’t realize at the time how much this reflects my bpd

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Something I made while struggling last night... Love you all.

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Anyone else relate to this when you're talking to someone??

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Drawing I did of my retraumatizing, involuntary inpatient stay earlier this month

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I tried to draw what BPD feels like

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A little reminder for myself everyday and for you all as well.

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Where I'm at right now

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What works for me when trauma comes up.

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[OC] Stigma

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Anybody Else’s Brain Feel Just Like This?

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Relationships

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What your emotions tell you

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I’m trying not to break down right now, and I don’t know what to do but someone had sent me theses messages and it really fucking broke me.. why would they hope for me to consider suicide....

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I dyed my hair to match my disorder

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Thought this was so fitting for all of us ❤️

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i’m trying. for the first time in my life, i’m trying.

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Another person here posted their BPD related art, so I felt motivated to share mine! Each piece is actually 6x4ft canvas with acrylic, but I combined them and edited a little with an app so you can see how they connect to each other.

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Rupi Kaur speaks to my soul

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Art therapy #MentalHealth #BPD

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My representation of BPD

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Interference - Mixed Media x-post from r/art. I thought this piece was a great depiction of how we can feel sometimes.

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The blessings to our curse

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Me all the time

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The book I recommend to anyone with BPD to read and share with loved ones trying to understand

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Poetry shit

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All our lives

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