Loosening the Chains of Mental Illness
Life with borderline personality disorder, complex anxiety disorder, and depersonalisation disorder.
When living with any mental illness it is important to have various coping strategies in place to ensure that you are keeping yourself as safe and as healthy as possible. Below is a list of the strategies that I have adopted over the years - some of which I hope may be of use to … Continue reading Mental Health Coping Mechanisms
“I don’t feel like me anymore. I don’t feel real” “I don’t know who I am anymore” “My reflection scares me, it doesn’t look like me” “It feels as if I am living in a cartoon or a movie” “It is as if I am looking down on myself, detached from my body” “I no … Continue reading “It feels as if I am living in a cartoon or a movie”: the reality of living with dissociation.
Loosening the Chains of Mental Illness 