Where I Never Meant to Be

Month: October 2020

Emotional skin

Post author By Ashana
Post date October 26, 2020
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I recall with particular horror one warm, weekend afternoon with all of us sitting in the livingroom while my mother threw pills in her mouth that she did not swallow, but said she would. It was purely for show, but she was serious about expressing something.

Tags adult children, borderline personality disorder, BPD, disorganised attachment, family trauma, healing, mental illness

Grief

Traumatic Grief

Post author By Ashana
Post date October 25, 2020
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Mourning is a process. We now understand that there is no order to it. However, bereavement involves stages that allow the bereaved to reformulate his life without the deceased. There is denial, anger, sadness, depression, acceptance. The stages of grief are well-known now. However, in the case of a death in which the manner of […]