I love this piece so much. My journey with BPD has brought on a variety of “breakdowns” and I also felt the same strange relief when I was diagnosed.
Telling these stories is so important. I’m in the beginning stages of my journey in sharing my story and making sense of it all, but it totally resonates that healing trauma comes from “creating a relational home”.
Also -- I LOVED the Bat Mitzvah movie on Netflix. As someone with two daughters I’m such a sucker for any story of two sisters and a lost/loving dad. Sandlers kids were so awesome and it looked like they had a lot of fun as a family on set.
Im so intrigued by the “nervous breakdown” catch all. It’s been something almost like lore referred to in enigmatic old stories of a relative without any real knowledge of what that means because the the language was non existent at the time. As an adult who has been informing myself more, I often wonder if this type of thing was more high escalated panic disorders. And because people couldn’t deal with it and didn’t have the tools it got classified as “nervous breakdown”
Unrelated, I happened to watch the first two episodes of “Depp vs Heard” on Netflix. Don’t think less of me please. Anyways Depp is no stranger to substance abuse and not surprisingly he has a family history of mental health challenges and he talks about how his mother used to take “nerve pills” that he was asked to give her from a young age. At some point him his tweens he was having increasingly difficult unmanageable feelings and didn’t know where to turn so he started snagging a pill everytime he gave his mother one.
I love this piece so much. My journey with BPD has brought on a variety of “breakdowns” and I also felt the same strange relief when I was diagnosed.
Telling these stories is so important. I’m in the beginning stages of my journey in sharing my story and making sense of it all, but it totally resonates that healing trauma comes from “creating a relational home”.
Also -- I LOVED the Bat Mitzvah movie on Netflix. As someone with two daughters I’m such a sucker for any story of two sisters and a lost/loving dad. Sandlers kids were so awesome and it looked like they had a lot of fun as a family on set.
Great feature.
Im so intrigued by the “nervous breakdown” catch all. It’s been something almost like lore referred to in enigmatic old stories of a relative without any real knowledge of what that means because the the language was non existent at the time. As an adult who has been informing myself more, I often wonder if this type of thing was more high escalated panic disorders. And because people couldn’t deal with it and didn’t have the tools it got classified as “nervous breakdown”
Unrelated, I happened to watch the first two episodes of “Depp vs Heard” on Netflix. Don’t think less of me please. Anyways Depp is no stranger to substance abuse and not surprisingly he has a family history of mental health challenges and he talks about how his mother used to take “nerve pills” that he was asked to give her from a young age. At some point him his tweens he was having increasingly difficult unmanageable feelings and didn’t know where to turn so he started snagging a pill everytime he gave his mother one.