Welcome back to another episode of one woman's journey to center of how the F**k society got this way; my name is Christy Ann and I will be your emotional support host!

This week I wanted to sort of break up our conversation on Civil Rights and the Women's Movement and take on something a little bit closer to home. For anyone that knows me knows that I have studied and experienced traits of Borderline Personality Disorder since I was 12 or so years old. I have spent numerous hours researching and studying the behaviors in others as well as in myself to see how these traits manifest and how this may show up in a person versus how it shows on paper so to speak. 

This particular episode is full of some very real conversation around emotional distress, childhood neglect, identity disturbance, and potential self-harm so for that I want to issue a bit of a "trigger warning". This show takes the role of a sort of "public personal therapy session" between myself and I and I want to use my platform to help others understand this diagnosis from the inside and clear away some of the stigma associated with BPD.

This will likely be a two part show, so stay tuned!

Below are my sources quoted therein, and I look forward to hearing on your feedback!

 

Sources:

https://www.verywellmind.com/borderline-personality-and-problems-in-thinking-425473

https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/personality-disorders/dsm-5-bpd-signs-and-symptoms/?utm_source=AdWords&utm_medium=Search_PPC_c&utm_term=_&utm_content=131965445482&network=g&placement=&target=&matchtype=&utm_campaign=6459244691&ad_type=text&adposition=&gclid=Cj0KCQiA47GNBhDrARIsAKfZ2rB043SCJHFK32Ex5Gl822fsoHkx-oEshG68VyT5165UqQO2Tw1524kaApZvEALw_wcB

https://www.rethink.org/advice-and-information/about-mental-illness/learn-more-about-conditions/borderline-personality-disorder/

https://www.borderlineintheact.org.au/living-with-bpd/development-and-course-of-bpd/

https://www.helpguide.org/articles/mental-disorders/borderline-personality-disorder.htm