Personality Disorders
Personality disorders involve patterns of behaviour, mood, social interaction, and impulsiveness that cause distress to one experiencing them, as well as to other people in their lives.
Fancey’s Feud—The Series
Reprinted from the Intergenerational Trauma issue of Visions Journal, 2023, 18 (2), pp. 18-20
My Diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder
The life sentence that isn’t
Reprinted from the "Responding to Feelings" issue of Visions Journal, 2021, 16 (4), pp. 24-25
Bad Personality? Poor Character?
Coming to terms with borderline personality disorder
From "The Language We Use" issue of Visions Journal, 2018, 14 (1), p. 23
When I received a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD), I did an Internet search to find out exactly what I was dealing with. What did BPD mean for my life?
What is obsessive-compulsive personality disorder?
A personality disorder is a pattern of thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that last for a long time and causes some sort of problem or distress.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
A personality disorder is a pattern of thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that last for a long time and causes some sort of problem or distress.
What is schizoid personality disorder?
A personality disorder is a pattern of thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that last for a long time and causes some sort of problem or distress.
Personality disorders
A personality disorder is a pattern of feelings, thoughts and behaviours that may have been with you for a long time. Personality disorders affect the way you understand yourself, the way you react to the world around you, the way you cope with emotions and the way you navigate relationships. Having a personality disorder does not mean that there is something wrong with your personality—it simply means that you have a pattern of feelings, thoughts and emotions for a long time that causes problems.
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