borderline personality disaster

verdigrisvagabond:

peanit:

t-shirt that says “i rely on pharmaceutical drugs to preform routine tasks”

Booty shorts that say “and then I don’t do them”

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guerrillatech:

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gothlit:

theyre not my problems they’re our problems bestie

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mental–healthawareness:

I’m less and less interested in masking my mental illness for people anymore. My energy belongs to my recovery and my healing, not in pretending I’m okay for your comfort or your approval.

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runillholdhimoff:

slowly losing sanity how y’all doin

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mutantapologist:

going to therapy is so humiliating. gotta explain symptoms like I know how this sounds and I know what you’re gonna say. and the therapist is like it sounds like you’re having symptoms

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gendernewtral:

dontneedyourheroact:

gallusrostromegalus:

kitchencombatconcept:

me, in the grocery store looking for ADHD med friendly breakfast juices squinting at cartons: any of you fuckers here got antiscurvy added in there??

For those of you just tuning in: drinking or eating anything even mildly acidic an hour before or after you take your ADHD meds can pretty much negate their effects. Vitamin C, aka Abscorbic Acid, aka “natural preservatives” is an acid that can do just that.

Which is why I start my day with a glass of chocolate milk like my third grade self wished I could lol.

I talked to my actual medical doctor about this. she had never heard of it, so she looked at a few medical journals, then said ‘oh! yeah, that’s wrong.’

people taking recreational stimulants would use vitamin c to get the drugs out of their system before taking a drug test. They would have to consume huge amounts of it (like, multiple vitamin c SUPPLEMENTS, not just a couple glasses of oj) to have a chance of passing, and even that didn’t always work.

point is, my doctor assured me that having a glass of orange juice for breakfast should have negligible, if any, affects on your adhd medicine. I recommend asking your own doctors abt it at ur next appointment.

actually since tags get removed:

- your doctor who prescribes your stuff knows the dosage better than anyone on tumblr

- FDA labels and the like have to put every single possible thing down on the manual. almost everything is contraindicated for diabetes because there are so many diabetics that someone is bound to have a diabetes-related reaction to something. it doesn’t mean it’s guaranteed or common

- most articles i looked into agreed that you have to take like a TON of supplemental vitamin c. not just the amount that would begin to replenish your usual levels, but an excessive amount

- consuming a small amount of vitamin c along with your medication will not impact it anymore than the usual levels of the vitamin in your body that it would have encountered anyways

- if you find a difference when taking a stimulant with and without vitamin c, talk to you doctor about determining causality and then what to do about it

- the chemicals in grapefruit that cause such significant medication interactions are furanocoumarin chemicals. they aren’t highly prevalent in other citrus

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mental–healthawareness:

Here’s some relationship or friendship advice if you know someone with BPD:

1. Learn their triggers. Their triggers tend to be Interpersonal things btw, as their trauma tends to have been interpersonal. So something you say or do could trigger an intense fear of abandonment or a fear of being treated cruelly again or not being cared for, etc.

2. Respect their triggers whether or not you understand them. It doesn’t matter if you think they’re making a big deal out of nothing. It’s real to them.

3. Learn what they need you to do when they’re splitting. Thats going to help you a lot with knowing what to do when it happens and, most importantly, not making it worse. Do they need you to just reassure them? Do they need you to just hold space for them? One thing that usually helps is to remain calm, not escalate the situation by matching their energy and to remind them that you care.

4. Learn how to tell when they’re splitting: learn to recognise the signs so you can know when it’s happening, which can help things not to escalate even further in the moment when it does.

5. Don’t gaslight them when you’re arguing or when they’re splitting. You honestly shouldn’t do this with anyone. Don’t invalidate or minimise their feelings, even if you can’t understand them.

6. Don’t invalidate their feelings or thoughts when they’re upset about something legitimate by telling them that it’s just their illness causing them to act this way or feel this way. Don’t invalidate their genuine reasons to be upset with you by saying it must be because they’re splitting.

These things aren’t always true and they’re really stigmatizing. Someone’s mental illness is not a scapegoat for everything you dislike or disagree with about them, or an excuse for you to not take accountability for when you cause genuine harm.

7. Learn. There is a lot of information out there, particularly from people with BPD. Learn more about the condition and what it feels like and why someone with it may act in a certain way. Don’t become complacent with the belief that you know everything either– always keep learning more or refreshing what you know.

8. Take time to take care of yourself. It’s okay to set boundaries around what you’re able to deal with– but make sure to clearly communicate those boundaries so they know.

Be honest with yourself about whether or not this is a relationship / friendship that you can handle, and base this especially on research of the illness and any upfront realities they disclose to you about what it’s going to be like and what they need. It’s okay if it’s not something you can handle.

But not being honest with yourself and them about this can be really harmful to them as it can activate fears of abandonment when you do realize its something you can’t handle later on.

9. Be kind. Do your best to be kind to them. People with BPD generally have not experienced a lot of kindness and having to experience even more insensitivity or hurtfulness can be difficult for their recovery.

If anyone with BPD has any more, please add them!

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sadhoc:

there is a very real tendency of teenagers with anxiety disorders self diagnosing with considerably more stigmatized and impairing mental illnesses (e.g. schizophrenia, DID, personality disorders), but the best response to that isn’t to get angry with them for “appropriating” lol. instead you show them coping resources for the problems they’re actually having and deemphasize diagnostic categories in general. if an 18 year old is claiming to have alzheimer’s, they’re probably making an innocent mistake and are in genuine distress. be kind.

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nuka-rockit:

simple task: needs to be done

my brain, rotating slowly like a single uncooked burger patty in the microwave:

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