Posted by Barely Knit Together on Oct 28, 2009 in
Breastfeeding,
Mental Stability,
Motherhood
This post is actually over at Breastfeeding Moms Unite, written for Melodie upon her request.
It was an honor to share it with her, and I hope you’ll pop on over and read it.
It concerns – you guessed it! Breastfeeding. So don’t say I didn’t warn you. But it’s also about me, and might prove interesting. Or [...]
Tags: borderline personality disorder, Breastfeeding, medication, mental illness, nursing, psychiatry
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Mar 14, 2009 in
A Bit on the Dark Side,
Mental Stability
Sometimes, late at night, when it’s dark and quiet and I’m completely alone at last, I think: maybe I should never have had children.
And my heart clenches and I start to cry and I want to argue with myself that it’s not true, but there is some little, hard, honest place inside of me that [...]
Tags: borderline personality disorder, depression, honesty, jesus, love, Motherhood, parenting, self harm, self injury, truth
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Feb 11, 2009 in
A Bit on the Dark Side,
Mental Stability
I am fairly open here, from the safety of my dining room table desk, seated in front of my dinosaur laptop. I suppose I feel a certain amount of anonymity, as everyone seems to on the internet. But I am also socially retarded, so I often make glib jokes about totally inappropriate things. Like mental [...]
Tags: borderline personality disorder, depression, dialectical behavior therapy
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Feb 8, 2009 in
A Bit on the Dark Side,
Mental Stability
…if I don’t post today.
If I cannot find the humor in my dysfunction right now, I suspect we would all do better to take a hot bath and a nap and call it a day.
Catch y’all later.
Tags: borderline, borderline personality disorder, depression
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Jan 26, 2009 in
Mental Stability,
Motherhood
The other day I had the distinct pleasure of being able to say the following words to my teenager with a straight face:
“You had a healthier emotional upbringing than that.”
The conversation started because her on again off again boyfriend is back, and the girl he dated in the interim is none too happy. She caused [...]
Tags: borderline personality disorder, depression, heartbreak, Motherhood, parenting, teenagers, young love
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Dec 8, 2008 in
Mental Stability
I am afflicted. I suffer from an assortment of letters that include: ACDBPODDD. In no particular order. I’m sure if I was feeling attentive or ambitious I could cobble together a word from all those letters, but I think there are too many disorders and not enough vowels. If I include those maladies belonging to [...]
Tags: add, adhd, borderline personality disorder, depression, mental illness, ocd, tourette's syndrome