BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER: A REPRESSED SUPERPOWER, PART II

Posted on May 31, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged abuse, behaviour, behavioural disorder, bipolar, Bojack Horseman, borderline personality disorder, BPD, care, cbt, DBT, eggshell therapy, emotional intelligence, empathy, featured, MAriah Carey, mental health, mental illness, misconceptions, personal, psychology, Raphael Bob Waksberg, research, stigma, superpower, therapy, trauma, UKCP.

by Sunetra Senior

CW: abuse | Continues from Part I here

Both Analytical and Emotional Intelligence

Mystification: go to work in an office to endorse more of that analytical, grounded thinking.

Hidden Truth: having these two qualities in equal measure means you have constant access to an enviable social clairvoyance that does well in advisory and imaginative professions.

The twin pairing is an attenuated, ongoing version of psychosis which means you can control it and draw from it whenever you want. What’s more you can immediately translate profound ideas to those around you, having one foot in the cosmos and the other in the everyday. That same parental lacking when a person with Border Personality Disorder grew up, made them sharp to environmental clues in order to survive. As this person grows older, they will retain this attentiveness, accumulating little signs and symbols – politically, mathematically and socially – to equip them to make impressive and perceptive connections and even predict sociological algorithms.

Additionally, you are likely to be excellent in the arts and in critical thinking because you process such a sensitivity to surroundings and are rapidly processing information and images. You can identify intuitive nuances that make great cinema and literature.

The world needs more dedicated artists, sociologists, researchers and socially conscious politicians, not bankers, marketing executives and legal crooks.Continue Reading

BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER: A REPRESSED SUPERPOWER, PART I

Posted on May 29, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged abuse, behaviour, behavioural disorder, bipolar, borderline personality disorder, BPD, care, cbt, DBT, emotional intelligence, empathy, featured, MAriah Carey, mental health, mental illness, misconceptions, personal, psychology, research, stigma, superpower, therapy, trauma.

by Sunetra Senior

CW: self-harm, abuse

As a homage to mental health awareness week (14th- 20th May), I have decided to write on an often misunderstood and underrepresented psychological health condition close to my heart, or more accurately my spirit. Borderline Personality Disorder or BPD is characterised as a ‘behavioural disorder’, which is intrinsic to one’s selfhood, and because of its often abuse-induced origins, has been notoriously difficult to treat. It is not the expected actions or the very true fact that the condition is deeply ingrained that I take issue with, but the medical paradigm of dysfunction and negativity implied by the alliterative last acronym.

This pervasive perceptual context, reflective of the attitude towards many mental health issues, permits an entire trail of prejudice, extending to the defining symptoms of BPD. Common misconceptions are “attention-seeking, manipulative and over-emotional”. This comes from the high numbers of those with BPD who self-harm, especially during their already tumultuous teenage years, their expressing the need for special care or extra-vigilance and seeming not to be able to cope with the interpersonal and social challenges that everyone else can.

It is time to not only put the record straight, but to add some fucking colour.Continue Reading

AN OPEN LETTER TO STEVE DOWNES, EDP.

Posted on March 4, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged accommodation, advice, anon street team, barriers, charities, City, Community, crisis, Eastern Daily Press, edp, exclusion, featured, foodcycle, grassroots, Haymarket, homeless, homelessness, hot meals, housing pressure, isolation, mental health, mental illness, norfolk, norwich, Norwich City Council, norwich foodcycle, Norwich Soup Movement, poverty, private landlords, rough sleepers, Shelter, social exclusion, soup kitchens, stereotypes, steve downes, stigma, The People's Picnic, unemployment, vulnerable, zero hour contracts.

by Eli Lambe

No, Soup Kitchens are not making Norwich’s “Homelessness problem” worse. It might seem that way to you, if you’re used to brushing the vulnerable off and not having to see the reality of more and more people’s lives. The easy solution – and the one that your newspaper and the local police like to peddle – is to force rough sleepers and vulnerable people out to the fringes of the city, where they’re cut off from their community and support and, most importantly it seems, you don’t have to see them.

What makes you think that your walking past the Haymarket every so often qualifies you to write about the lives of the people in the queue?Continue Reading

WHY I DISAGREE WITH THE ‘EXIT FROM BREXIT’ FLOAT IN NORWICH

Posted on May 21, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged art, Brexit, carnival, democracy, Dusselforf, EU, european union, exit, exit from brexit float, mental health, norfolk, norwich, politics, prime minister, Remain, satire, sculpture, stigma, suicide, theresa may.

by James Anthony

Content warning: article mentions suicide, and features a carnival float depicting suicide

To mark the arrival of BBC’s Question Time in Norwich on Thursday, a rather controversial float turned up in our city. Created for a festival in Dusseldorf, an impressively sized and eerily lifelike representation of the Prime Minister with a ‘Brexit’ gun in her mouth, was rolled around nearby streets to attract attention and to supposedly draw support for the pro-EU cause.

While I can appreciate the enthusiasm behind the protest, I can’t help but think it’s the wrong way to go about building a campaign focused on ensuring a future close to Europe.Continue Reading

CAN WE CALL IT LOVE?

Posted on February 4, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged Donald Trump, heterosexual, love, monogamy, non-con, omgyes, pagan, personal, Perspectives, promiscuity, romance, sex, sex sells, slut shaming, stigma, valentine's day.

by Alice Thomson

(Content warning: mention of sexual assault)

I’m sure you’ve all noticed the Valentine’s Day gifts and cards that seem to be everywhere at the moment. Like Christmas, it’s almost impossible to avoid. When I got outside I can barely move for all the soppy rom-coms, chocolates and flowers that are being bandied about. And all of them carry connotations of sex.

A CYCLE OF FEAR AND UNCERTAINTY – MENTAL HEALTH AND JOBHUNTING

Posted on December 21, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged anxiety, depression, empathy, employment, isolation, job application, mental health, stigma, unemployment.

By Liam Hawkes

“You interviewed well but unfortunately we just didn’t feel that you were right for this particular position.”

These are the words that no one seeking employment wants to hear. Looking for a job, especially during times of uncertainty and instability, can be a terrifying prospect. My own recent experience of this has got me wondering about the connection between job seeking, rejection and our mental health.

DIRTY LITTLE SECRET

Posted on September 4, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Perspectives and tagged art, artist, Blur, BPD, colors, colours, depression, dirty, disability, disorder, font, guilt, health, illness, melt, mental health, mental illness, Mind, orginal art, psychiatry, psychology, rough, SAD, secret, shame, shaming, stigma, unfinished.

by Asia Patel
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THANKS JEREMY, BUT I DON’T WANT YOUR SYMPATHY

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged austerity, conservatives, cuts, david cameron, domestic violence, Jeremy Hunt, Liberal Democrats, mental health, mental health awareness week, MHAW, MHAW16, NUS, politics, relationships, self care, sexual assault, stigma, student unions.

by Finn Northrop

Trigger warning: Rape, sexual assault and domestic violence

Last week was Mental Health Awareness Week, and each year this presents a fantastic opportunity for huge numbers of committed activists to not only raise awareness of a variety of mental health conditions but also to promote self-care and self-help methods, and to give people the bravery to seek help – whether that means reaching out to close friends or taking to the step of going to their GPs and seeing what services are available to them.Continue Reading

TACKLING THE STIGMA OF MENTAL HEALTH IN ASIA

Posted on May 22, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged APIAHF, asia, Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum, Asian communities, cultural values, depression, honour, Indonesia, mental health, mental health asia, mental health awareness, mentalillness, MHAW, MHAW16, stigma, suicide, University of Hong Kong’s Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention.

by Faizal Nor Izham

Disclaimer: mentions suicide, depression, physical and mental abuse

Tackling the stigma against mental illness is arguably gaining ground among Western students and in Western society in general. However, the task of helping to achieve widespread understanding and acceptance of mental health still remains highly stigmatized in Asian cultures, regardless of which region of the world they’re in.

There may be increasing discourse on the human rights of the mentally-unwell, as well as the demand for their social inclusion and the need for resources to tackle mental health, but the issue remains seriously ignored in the developing world, or even among diasporic Asian communities in the West. In fact, what the dialogue really needs to address is the larger issue at hand that mental health-related problems are still exceptionally stigmatised in Asian society.Continue Reading

RADICAL MENTAL HEALTH, AND WHY WE NEED IT NOW MORE THAN EVER

Posted on May 18, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged anti-depressants, austerity, authority, autonomy, chemical imbalance, depression, diagnosis, Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, DSM, economic injustice, grief, homelessness, homosexuality, mainstream discourse, mental health, mental health awareness week, mental illness, MHA, neurodivergence, politicise, psychiatric disorders, psychiatrist, radical mental health, social injustice, stigma, support.

by Emma Draper

Disclaimer: mentions loss, bereavement, depression

Until 2013, the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) incorporated a ‘bereavement clause’ into the criteria for major depressive disorder, excluding patients from a diagnosis of clinical depression if they suffered bereavement in the last two weeks. Put simply: if someone you love has just died and you cry all day and can’t eat and everything is terrible — well, that’s a healthy and expected response which we call ‘grief’. The removal of the clause by the American Psychiatric Association was contentious, with accusations made that psychiatrists were trying to ‘medicalise’ mourning. One commentator called it the most controversial decision since the removal of homosexuality from the list of psychiatric disorders in 1973.

For me, this illustrates a lot of pertinent questions about how we think and talk about mental illness. What does mental wellness look like? How do we draw the distinction between the normal fluctuations of a healthy mindset and ‘pathological’ functioning? Does having the authority to categorise what mental states are ‘normal’ give psychiatrists social and ideological influence beyond their remit?Continue Reading

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BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER: A REPRESSED SUPERPOWER, PART II

Both Analytical and Emotional Intelligence

BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER: A REPRESSED SUPERPOWER, PART I

WHY I DISAGREE WITH THE ‘EXIT FROM BREXIT’ FLOAT IN NORWICH

CAN WE CALL IT LOVE?

A CYCLE OF FEAR AND UNCERTAINTY – MENTAL HEALTH AND JOBHUNTING

DIRTY LITTLE SECRET

THANKS JEREMY, BUT I DON’T WANT YOUR SYMPATHY

TACKLING THE STIGMA OF MENTAL HEALTH IN ASIA

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