Tag: Communications

Communication is key…

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People without a mental illness don’t understand or care that communication is essential for emotional stability. Especially for someone with Borderline Personality Disorder, we feel things so much more intensely than the average person. Being rejected, ridiculed, or invalidated is as painful as being physically hit. It’s why most will self-harm because physical pain is …

It’s a unicorn.

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What is empathy?  What is sympathy? How are they different? To sympathize with someone is to feel sorry for them, almost a pity in my opinion. Empathy, on the other hand, is to feel their pain with them. You aren’t shaming them for their pain; you are compassionate about it.   Now, it’s been a few days since I wrote that. I was doing homework, and with my 100 tabs open in my head, I got a popup!  …