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The mental health charity Rethink, are asking if mental health illnesses are ever a gift on their twitter feed and on their facebook page.

I am diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. This is in no way a gift.

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Today is self-injury awareness day. A day to speak out, however you want to do so, and to lean some stuff about self harm, cutting, etc.


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Self Harm Awareness Day is on the 1st March.

I’m one of those people who believes that you can’t understand something until you’ve experienced it yourself. I can never answer those hypothetical ‘what if?’ questions, because I just can’t be sure what I ( Read more... )

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I haven’t self-harmed for an entire year.

This means cutting (what I usually did), burning (rarely), hitting and bruising myself (tried it a few times but didn’t like it). Over-medicating. I’ve tried most things in a bit cause myself some damage.

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Dry skin
over old scars,
peel back the patterns
etched into skin
scrub away the bruises
the burst blood vessels
look, look, look at me
repeat the sequence
you see,
broken circuits in the brain
could be used
to explain
some of this
or none of this
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It’s been snowing here all week, I was literally bouncing off the walls on Monday and took my camera out to group with me. We made a snowman and messed about before therapy.

This morning I woke up to more snow and tried to go out but the bus driver ( Read more... )

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it’s amazing how quickly
a knife blade will dull
as blood stains your sin.

a good wit can fade,
think of new lines
but they disappear.

find new skin to mar
with ink that won’t wash away
it’s not always a good look
over striped scarred skin.

I haven’t taken my meds since Thursday. The dreams are interesting. I will have a nightmare and then a dream. So far all three dreams have been fandom related, the last two involving Elizabeth Weir.

The headache is almost worth it, it’s so strange. I don’t move though, so I end up with a dead hand, or at the very least dead fingers.

I just forgot ( Read more... )

I haven’t taken my meds since Thursday. The dreams are interesting. I will have a nightmare and then a dream. So far all three dreams have been fandom related, the last two involving Elizabeth Weir.

The headache is almost worth it, it’s so strange. I don’t move though, so I end up with a dead hand, or at the very least dead fingers.

I just forgot ( Read more... )