Sometimes a person says something, a few words either off-the-cuff or perhaps more thought through, that takes root in my mind. 'Just be...

I'm struggling a bit this week with all my usual culprits: embarrassment, feeling exposed, social anxiety in certain situations,...

The quotation 'a ruffled mind makes a restless pillow', attributed to the author Charlotte Bronte, is actually uttered by the...

A little while ago, I wrote about my lifelong obsession (I think that word is apt and not an overstatement) with notebooks and...

I spent half an hour tonight writing these nine haikus for National Poetry Day. If you're not familiar with haikus, don't worry. They are...

I first encountered Russ Harris' concept of 'values guided action' about seven years ago and I found that it related to several of my...

It can be really lonely, and even painful, to be diagnosed with a stigmatised and contested diagnosis like borderline personality...

A few years ago, sitting on an awkwardly-shaped plastic chair in a Medical Humanities seminar, I had one of those life-changing moments...

Earlier this year I wrote a post called 'Why I'm No Longer Ashamed' about why I'm not ashamed of having a BPD diagnosis. As I explained...

'Just because I write about something doesn't mean I want to have a conversation about it.' — Olivia Petter speaking in 'The Power of...

A couple of weeks ago my husband pointed out to me, in his characteristically humorous way, that my worries are on a cycle. If it's not...

Sometimes I pretend I feel absolutely fine when I feel so terrible all I can think about is how much I hate myself and how much I deserve...