.: As promised - 5 skills for today

Wednesday 14 August 2013

As promised - 5 skills for today

So here I am a few hours after writing my last post with my promised 5 skills. It helps that today I had no work so I did make this promise to myself to choose at least 5 to do today so that I am still in touch with these incredible skills that really help me get through my BPD journey.

Today I especially chose skills that were going to be relaxing as well as distracting. I have so many things going on in my head today the last thing I want to do is add stimulating activities to my thought processes.

Here we go:

Reading (today I read more of Debbie Corso's blog)

Skill - Distress Tolerance (distract by doing an activity)

Skill - Distress Tolerance (one thing in the moment)

Burned incense (relaxation blend of Geranium, Lavender and Bergamot)

Skill - Distress Tolerance (self soothe - smell)

Listened to relaxing music (Life of Trees)

Skill - Distress Tolerance (self soothe - hear/listen)

I blogged

Skill - Distress Tolerance (distract by contributing)

Skill - Distress Tolerance (distract by doing an activity)

I did some guided imagery (Ocean Escape)

Skill - Distress Tolerance (improving the moment with imagery)

Stay tuned for my 5 skills tomorrow.

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I guess this is really just a personal diary of my recovery of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), a mental illness that has debilitated me for as long as I remember. Having been diagnosed with Major Depressive Illness for most of my adult life I have never been embarrassed to be open about it and tell people how I feel. With a diagnosis of BPD, which came just last year, I have been put off being so open about it because of the huge stigma that this illness brings. I'm hoping that with time I will feel okay about this going out for anyone to read because the last 12 years (when it was first suspected I had it) professionals have encouraged me to believe and feel that it is a hopeless cause and to never tell anyone about it. It is my strong opinion that I should never have to be embarrassed or felt to suppress a sickness that I did not give myself. Besides posting on here to express my feelings, I wanted to share my experiences of my recovery with the treatment Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) in the hopes to perhaps help others understand the illness and to demonstrate how DBT helps me. I am not a Dr or a psychologist and I am in no way a professional in the use of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy as I am just in the very beginning stage of treatment. I use images on here to also help me with my recovery and I apologise for not citing all of them.