#bpd infographic

[bpdbecca]

Anyone wanna share what’s the worst part for them?

I think for me it’s the chronic emptiness. I hate feeling so alone. But also abandonment issues and anger. Ugh.

[johnlennonirl]

Here I am, posting something similar like the fibro post... this one goes out to my psychotic folks🫶

[ed-recoverry]

Some of my favorite posts on r/BenignExperience from the past week

Thanks to the tumblr post that made me aware of this subreddit. It makes me smile.

Part two, part three, part four

[kkoct-ik]

i dont remember why i drew this

[mental-mona]

[eliserzilber]

Wise Mind

This diagram breaks down the states of mind that we experience.

Please note that neither side is “good” or “bad”; the aim of practicing mindfulness is to combine both and act in your own best interest.

Emotion Mind

Feelings control actions

Can disregard the facts of a situation

Impulsivity based on emotions in the moment

Self-injurious behavior 

Reasonable Mind

Logic controls actions

Detached from emotions

Can invalidate your emotional experience

Wise mind

Combines the facts of a situation with the emotional experience

Helps you process a situation before acting

Mindfulness will help get you here

*More DBT guides here*

[kindsoulbuddy]

[narherkugel]

Tag urself, I'm all of them

Art by Sarah Burgess

[pjsk-headcanons]

Yall like neurodivergent headcanons?

L/N: Honami and Ichika are both autistic, with Ichika’s special interest being vocaloid because what else would it be? And not a ND headcanon but Saki would make pastel social media infographics to educate people about chronic illness + decorates her mobility aids with stickers :)

MMJ: Minori is 100% autistic; “more, more!” is a vocal stim. Shizuku is autistic and has ADHD (RSD hits her hard), as well as dyslexia, while Airi has dysgraphia. VBS: Will forever be an ADHD An & Akito truther, they and Toya and ADHD/Autism solidarity tm. Kohane has social anxiety; though I’d argue that’s semi-canon.

WxS: I think we can all agree that all four of them have more than a touch of the tism, and Nene canonically has social anxiety. “Wandahoy!” is echolalia for Emu :3

N25: Kanade has OCD, with her compulsions relating to her father’s condition. Like her brother, Ena has ADHD, as well as BPD. Mafuyu is autistic, and Mizuki is ADHD as well <3

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[power-chords]

Also I'm not trying to overrule the popular/contemporary fanon interpretation that Will Graham is autistic, but I don't want to lose any of the classic Harris gender mischief in the process, and I don't see enough acknowledgement of the reading that in 197?-1981 when Harris was creating the character, Will's specific traits would have been considered feminizing and hysterical. He was never made a special agent because he failed his psych eval. He couldn't cut it for longer than a few years as a field investigator because his susceptibility to empathic contagion — literally, his ability to catch the emotions of people around him, eroding at the boundaries of self and identity — was too destructive to his sanity, too much of a liability. It gave him a nervous breakdown that landed him in a psych ward. For a month. Will Graham may be neurodivergent but he is definitely also the 2013 Tumblrina running a meticulously curated aesthetic/depression blog and posting infographics about being an empath with BPD.

[bpdbecca]

[aoki553]

'bpd makoto teruhashi??'- a character analysis/yapping session because no one understands the siblings like i do

Time to turn the capslock on for this one! The writing might be incoherent, but I want to focus on getting my thoughts out with this one, so be aware. Let me start this post by clarifying - I am not a psychologist. This is for fun, done used resources I've found online. This is about an anime character, not about a real person's struggles.

Trigger warning for obvious sibling marriage romanticization mention sighhh like we aren't talking about it constantly when it comes to him apparently.

We all know the way Makoto has been protrayed in the series - a comically overexaggerated siscon. His portrayal makes many people uncomfortable due to his perverted obsessive behavior.

Except, I'm going to throw it all out the window cuz in this post I meant to take a look at his behavior from a fan's perspective without any biases like 'eww yucky siscon make me uncomfy'. NONE of that here.

I'll start by addressing the elephant in the room and the main reason i'm making this post: Makoto's obsession. Both of the Teruhashi siblings have obvious superiority complexes, however, Makoto is overshadowed by his little sister's charm, whom he idealizes and has an unhealthy attachment to. He's aware of his own charm and beauty, but only takes it to account to point out how he's the only one worthy of Kokomi's love and attention.

Kokomi has clearly been his whole world ever since she was born. A life-long fascination and attachment that went unnoticed. His perfect little sister is able to change his mood drastically whenever she's getting attention from anyone other than him or is even slightly dissatisfied with him.

He lacks a sense of self - only Kokomi matters for him. He's able to ditch his responsibilities in an instant, only to be with her. He's depicted as a cherub to Kokomi's goddess appearance in the mobile game and as a chauffeur in the Duet Shite KudaPsi anime end credits. Always below her, as her servant.

He becomes severely distressed and panics over even something so simple as a her getting a cold. (Just like everyone else at her school, but he's there for her.)

At all times he needs to make sure she isn't surrounded by men that are 'unworthy' of her, even to the point of stalking her to get some piece of mind. He craves her approval and cares for her like no one else in the entirety of the manga. (Example: Taking her to movie theatres and watch every movie he has ever starred in to show her.) These are signs of Kokomi being Makoto's 'favorite person'.

Awesome, but does it explain Makoto seeing her not as his sister, but as a future wife? Is it just him making things way creepier in his mind than they need? Yes, actually.

Makoto's overprotective and obsessive behavior is comically exaggerated, duh, but if we think about it for a second... Kokomi is a person he's been there for her whole life, he provides and protects her from unwanted attention. He dedicated his whole life to her and knowing there is an unavoidable future of his whole world collapsing because someone will take his place. Not as a siblings, but as a lover - something more important than family. How can he avoid this? By being the one to marry her, of course. No one but him is worthy of her anyway, right? Why should she need anyone else? No matter how messed up that sounds, it's his way of thinking.

Now let's go over some of the diagnostic criteria for BPD. I'll be using this site and infographic as my resource, just to give a few simple (but appropiate in my opinion) examples.

Fear of abandonment, rejection - while it's not explicitly stated, I believe his 'marriage' thing is just that. Not wanting to be abandonned and forgotten by the only person he loves and cares about. I don't believe he has any perverted motive behind it. Just fear and wanting her only for himself.

Idealization and devaluation - both extremes show up in his behavior. Most notably towards Kokomi or Kusuo. He's hostile and outright rude to Kusuo, but the moment Kokomi shows up he becomes all sunshine and rainbows. Another example of it is his indifference towards Kokomi's friends, compared to the excessive attention he gives to his sister. My theory is that Makoto doesn't have relationships due to a predisposition to making his relations with other people unstable, or never even bothering to try in the first place. (Like he is towards Ruchi, for example.)

Impulsivity and inappropiate anger - he rushes to anger the moment his love is threatened. A simple thought of Kokomi getting romantic advances enrages him. Even if it could cost him his career or his public image - something Kokomi cares about the most for herself, the opposite to her brother.

Emotional instability - we've only been shown his mood swings like the one below. If we got to see more of his personal life, this one would be much clearer, but it's something a siscon pun character doesn't get to have in a comedy manga, so I'll leave it at that.

Paranoia - Let the image below speak for itself... His delusions can be interpreted as a symptom on its own, too.

But what could've caused this? Since we never see what the Teruhashi siblings' parents are like, it's easy to assume Makoto has a role of her caretaker or a provider, due to only these two being ever shown living in the wealthy Teruhashi residency. The only time we ever see their parents being acknowledged is when Saiko spread a fake rumor of Mugami Tooru having an affair. Note: We never actually see them, we don't know if they're even there.

My personal theory is simple - Kokomi's charm and absent parental figures must've affected Makoto's development and made him emotionally dependent solely on Kokomi's well being. I'm taking his idol career into an account as well, since he must've been scouted into show business in his teens, or earlier. (He was already famous by 17.)

Conclusion: I think Makoto is an interesting example of a person with BPD in media, but I'm often disappointed how little we talk about it. Or maybe I'm just too obsessed with him to see him only as what he is on the surface. :3

PHEW. So after like 4 hours of trying to put my words into one big post I think that's all I had to say for now about this topic~! I have a lot of love for this boy and I really needed to get my thoughts out about this theory of mine. Sorry for unnecessary rambling and incoherence at times. Thanks for reading!

[tommyssupercoolblog]

My dumbass searched BPD on Tumblr search hoping to find the kind of infographics I find for autism and ADHD only to realize that there is no infographics only ableism, vent posts about the ableism, and vent posts where reading them actively fuels my fear of abandonment. Whoops

[funkervogt]

This is like the only site that doesnt completely mask off demonize NPD its so crazy this constant throwing around of the term narcissist like Is Your Mom A Narcissist? How to Avoid Narcissists. How to diagnose everyone you don't like in your life with Narcissism. The existence of the colloquial term Narcissistic Abuse. And its funny they never say NPD. Thats not their buzzword. Its an issue of nobody taking accountability. Oh you did something that broke my boundary so im diagnosing you with Evil And Unfixable Disorder. (They dont know about neuroplasticity) Yes sure its treatment resistant but that doesnt mean that every case is unfixable and no one with npd will ever be aware of their disorder. Becuase part of the fucking problem is everyrhing online is How To Deal With Evil Narcissistic Parents or Boyfriend or whatever and there is like no education on its core causes and onset that is presented with empathy and understanding and ways to heal. Ive seen someone diagnosed+self aware+healing say it feels like you're sick inside. It feels horrible. It develops in childhood as a defense mechanism. Thats all it is and it makes sense. The core of it is shame and everything is built around it to defend against it and control what triggers it. It hurts others because that's what mental illness does. It's so complicated. It destroys your relationships. People are not required to stay with you when you are doing very real damage to them. The thing is that THERE IS HEALING for npd, but there's so much fucking stigma that finding out how is almoat impossible and you just get told you're evil forever with no cure and everyone should stay away from you forever to protect themselves and you deserve to be alone forever. When one of the keys to healing is always self compassion. Search NPD on instagram explore and tell me how thats possible to even begin to foster with all this buzzword shit out there. Ok. Whatever. Hi. Infographics when u tell them u have bpd vs infographics when u tell them u have npd

[mental-mona]

[systemserendipity]

Hey there fellow plurals/systems/multiples!

Got any burning questions about others' experiences of plurality?

Feel free to contribute to this list of questions, and we'll answer them on this blog at-random! Or you could always hop in our ask-box. :]

Or are you a singlet, curious about what plurality means?

Then you may want to check out the informative sources provided in our blog article about systemhood!

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