Floating Through Emotional Storms

 1. Funky Fidgets Shop ( link ) This shop was initially created on social media during lockdown and now they have a website and a physical shop. They add new fidgets on their website every Tuesday and have the best selection of fidgets I have seen in any shop. 2. Ali's Sensory Boxes ( link ) This is a family shop created in memory of their daughter/sister, Ali. They have a range of individual items but what I like the most is they have sensory boxes varying in price where you say what your likes and dislikes are and they will create a box for you. It's nice to get a surprise in the post.

This is only my experience but I would love to hear if anyone can relate or would like to share their own experience. I remember being in my early twenties and my psychologist telling me that I'd probably start to feel better and not struggle so much with EUPD in my thirties or early forties. At the time I was really upset that I'd have to continue struggling for so long and the way things were described to me it was as if I would somehow be cured and have no symptoms of EUPD when that time arrived. I can see why some professionals think this is the case but, for me at least, it has only been a surface change. At some point maybe a few years ago my behaviour changed a lot. I had a big reduction in self harm, overdosing, and suicide attempts. This was not because I wasn't feeling intense emotions any more or because I didn't want to harm myself or die, I very much still felt these things, but I found as I got older I wasn't able to deal with the pain of more serious ...

  This post came up on my Facebook memories today (annoyingly I can't figure out how to remove the background colour): So many people are dying because of mental illness. The quote I've attached, 'you cannot save people you can only love them' is mostly true but I do think that kindness and love can go a long way to saving someone. I have experienced too many cruel and judgemental people, MH professionals a lot of the time, who just add to peoples pain. By the way I know the majority of MH professionals are really great people. I overheard a nurse say that she used to only work with people with EUPD - who pretended to be suicidal, and then she encountered other people with real illnesses. This is a damn painful fake illness then! I can only talk for myself but the way I would describe EUPD is like a magnifying glass/microscope for situations and emotions. So if a person in general was scared of bugs and saw an ant they might not react too much to it, someone with EUPD w...

 I am a 38 year old female living in Scotland. I have struggled with my mental health pretty much all of my life that I can remember and have been diagnosed with Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder/Borderline Personality Disorder Disorder, potentially Primary Psychotic Disorder NOS and also potentially Autism. I'm going to refer to myself as having autism throughout the blog just because it is easier than saying potential autism and means I don't have to change the wording if I am ever diagnosed. I'm not entirely sure how this blog is going to turn out. The ideas I have at the moment are to share coping mechanisms, insights into how my illnesses personally affect me vs how professional opinions differ, book reviews, and a jumble of other things. I might run out of things to post about but I hope the posts are beneficial to at least one person. Where to start?