Are you a high-functioning mentally ill person?
Read about my successful life teaching college students and homeschooling my child while I manage my mental illness.
Does your mental illness keep you from doing what you want to do?
Read about my struggles with symptoms that interfere with everyday activities and my special gifts for addressing them.
Do you treat people with mental illness?
Here is a window into the life and thought process of someone who is experiencing borderline personality disorder and observing borderline personality disorder at the same time.
How I can help
Suffering is not a competitive sport.
Everyone knows what it is to suffer. But the pain of borderline personality disorder is excruciating and long-lasting. What is often not understood is that sufferers of borderline personality disorder can be very high-functioning.
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Explore resources for dealing with Borderline Personality Disorder to learn more about this disease.
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Read the foreword to Jansen’s book: Said Shahtahmasebi, PhD of the Good Life Research Centre Trust discusses Jansen’s story, mental illness and suicidality.
The belief that people who are mentally ill are somehow defective is wrong.
I am not defective; I have an illness.
My brain was changed by childhood abuse. That change to my brain will never be fixed. But it does not keep me from being intelligent and competent.