Global Health Mag Narcissist Abuse, Medical Marijuana, Fibromyalgia

For people with borderline personality disorder (BPD), loss of control of negative emotions, otherwise known as emotion dysregulation, is a regular fact of life. An event triggers anger, fear, or sadness which, in turn, further stimulates a process of rumination in which they continue to dwell upon how upset they are. In the process, the …

In such a dark and troubling world, can having too much love be a bad thing? If you have borderline personality disorder (BPD), then often the answer is yes. The balance between caring for someone as a loved one, and being utterly consumed by their well-being, can be a blurred line for …

To the ones I love, I wish you knew how I long to be emotionally stable, to not question your love for me. To not be so hot and cold. Each morning, I wake up wishing my emotions somehow magically regulated overnight and I wouldn’t struggle all day to remain …

I know this is an extremely sensitive topic, but it is one that needs to be discussed. Because I know for a fact that at one point in our lives, we have been suicidal or have known someone struggling with these thoughts. One in five people struggle with mental health issues. That means …

A few hours after my brother Joe’s funeral, I noticed my father had shrunk. We sat together on my grandparents’ couch — him in his special occasion suit and a rumpled tie, me in black pants and a white sweater. As a kid, I’d seen him as the giant who …

Tera Hawes first reached out for help with her mental health around 2011, when she was suffering from what she now knows as a hypomanic episode. “There [were] lots of areas where my life was kind of spiralling,” she said. The 37-year-old from Vancouver was overspending, using substances and had …

Standing in the cold, dark bathroom, she hacked into her wrist with a razor blade and quietly stared at the blood that flowed from the cut. She told herself she was a bad person and deserved the pain. A part of her felt reassured by the sight of the blood …

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a highly stigmatised and misunderstood condition. Australians with BPD face considerable barriers to accessing high-quality and affordable care, according to new research published today. For every 100 patients we treat in inpatient psychiatric wards, 43 will have BPD. People with this condition are vulnerable, impulsive, and highly susceptible to criticism …

I don’t usually tell people I have fibromyalgia because this admission is usually accompanied by the eye roll. Fibromyalgia is a unique illness in that many people, including physicians, think we’re making it up. In their mind, fibromyalgia doesn’t exist. It’s all in our heads. We need to get counseling, or we’re …

Lady Gaga made a surprising announcement on Twitter early Tuesday morning: She suffers from fibromyalgia, a chronic disorder that causes widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, and tenderness in certain areas. The singer made the revelation while addressing her upcoming Netflix documentary, Gaga: Five Foot Two. “In our documentary the #chronicillness #chronicpain I deal w/ …

When you live with borderline personality disorder (BPD), sometimes traditional coping techniques simply don’t work in the way you want them to. If you are facing thing like emotional instability and fear of abandonment — possibly in addition to trying to explain your experience to others who don’t understand — it can be hard to cope. We …

That people with borderline personality disorder are particularly sensitive to rejection seems to be part and parcel of their psychological makeup. An insecure attachment style, in which people constantly fear being abandoned or neglected, is regarded as one of the most critical factors at play in leading to the instability and identity difficulties they face as adults. If …

I don’t believe you understand the intensity of the pain I feel as it’s ripping apart my soul. It’s like I’m ripping my own chest open with bare hands, claw marks across my chest, and someone’s grabbing my heart and trying to tear it apart. Like I’m sitting in the …

These 5 ‘people’ or ‘states’ are not related to Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly Multiple Personality Disorder). They are not separate personalities themselves, but rather, at least for myself, ‘shifts’ in behaviour and reactions to emotional stimulus. For me personally, I find this is different to ‘SPLITTING’. There is a permanent …

Although it might have an impact, a BPD diagnosis doesn’t automatically make you a ‘bad friend’. For years, I was convinced that I was undeserving of friends. It seemed like the only rational explanation for why I was so unusually adept at losing them. In every situation, I was the …

Imagine being stigmatized as crazy. Imagine your partner’s friends warning them to steer clear of you. On top of this, imagine experiencing exhausting mood swings and an unavoidable fear of being abandoned. Welcome to the world of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). This mental illness is somewhat of an enigma to the …

It’s Mental Health Week across Australia. Each state starts and ends the special week at different times, but today—Monday—there’s a lot of overlap. So I want to explain why this week should feel like an important call to arms, and tell you what it’s like to live with a common—and …

You may identify the borderline in your life to be over emotional and dramatic. With ignorance, you may identify the borderline as a drama queen. A drama queen intentionally reacts to situations in a melodramatic manner. They will blow things out of proportion and create an issue out of nothing. This unnecessary exaggeration …

I need you to know that I have a personality disorder, it is the diagnosis that I don’t speak about publicly and rarely talk about to anybody because I’m scared that telling you what I have will make you think I am a bad person. I desperately need you to …

There are currently no effective treatments for fibromyalgia, a chronic condition that causes widespread pain, sleep problems, fatigue, and emotional distress. The underlying cause has remained a mystery, although some research has hinted at the involvement of the immune system. A study has now found that antibodies from people with …

As the coronavirus (Covid-19) — a new virus that attacks your lungs and respiratory system — makes its way around the world, I feel unusually calm in the midst of the panic. Hypervigilance (defined as a state of increased alertness) is my “normal,” so I casually stocked up on necessities weeks ago, long before the …

When someone you care about, or even someone you don’t care about, tells you they’re having thoughts of taking their life, it can make you instantly feel like freaking out. What the actual heck are you supposed to say to that? Their first instinct may be to immediately grab the person and …

I struggle to get up every day. Sometimes, getting into the shower is more than I can do. I can go days without showering, washing my clothes, and these are things most people who do not struggle with mental illnesses like depression or anxiety can understand. I wash my face, wet my hair and …

I thought someone was watching me through my window. I closed my blinds, turned my lights off and locked my bedroom door. I dragged my laundry basket in front of my door to barricade it as if that would suffice. I then thought I needed to decipher a numerical code …