Services of Jansen Vee
Watching Myself be Borderline
book by Jansen Vee
Watching Myself Be Borderline: A Smart Sufferer Says How It Started And How She Survives tells my story. From the day I was born, my environment shaped me in horrible ways. I was born normal, but the realities of my childhood family gave me borderline personality disorder.
A person who has borderline personality disorder never stops having borderline personality disorder. It is a thing that happens to your brain and your brain does not magically change into a normal brain. Watching Myself tells the story of my narcissistic parents and their extreme inability to nurture me as well as my persistent efforts, over decades, to get better and find a way to live on.
If you like stories of heroic overcoming of the odds, you will like this story.
If you have ever wondered what the dynamics of a family might be that constitute child abuse when no child is ever hit or even yelled at, this story will enlighten you.
If you are curious about the day-to-day life of someone who is persistently and severely mentally ill but not living on the streets, this will fill you in.
Jansen Vee’s book is available at Amazon.com.
I would be so pleased if you would choose to read my book!
Speaking Services
I am also happy to come and speak to your group. Does your group want to know more about fighting the stigma of mental illness? Or does your group have questions about borderline personality disorder, specifically?
I can give a short or medium-length presentation. I am available to preach a sermon. I can lead a discussion and answer questions.
Writing Services
An article for your newsletter or publication could be just the thing to fight the stigma of mental illness or educate people about borderline personality disorder.
You may contact me to ask me to write an article for you about the suffering that is faced by mentally ill persons, or how our churches and communities can support the mentally ill, or how people come to have such severe mental illness. Tell me what might be a useful article for you here.
One of the first articles I wrote about my experience as a mentally ill person was, “How Hymns Hurt Me.” This article was published back in the day when our denominational newsletter came out on paper once each month. It discussed well-known hymns and the texts that made me, as a mentally ill person, feel left out — or even angry. One hymn (which you might recognize) has a line that goes, “All I have needed thy hand hath provided.” This text really bothers me! Certainly, God has not provided me with everything I needed. I needed, for example, an accurate diagnosis of my mental illness three decades earlier than I got it. This is one of the hymns I examined in my article.