Super Feeler: A BPD Podcast
Dive into the experiences of living with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).
Hear powerful stories from individuals with lived experience, their families, researchers, and mental health professionals. Each episode provides a strength-based perspective on mental health, filled with humor, raw emotion, and validation.
Every other week you will learn from a group of Super Feelers about how they navigate the world using Dialectic Behavioural Therapy skills.
Whether you’re navigating these challenges yourself, supporting a loved one, or simply looking to understand more about the complexities of emotional regulation, Super Feeler is here to inform, inspire, and connect.
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Together, we explore the complexities of these conditions in a way that celebrates the beauty of feeling strongly.
Super Feeler: A BPD Podcast
BPD Symptoms: Self Harm
Self-harm is something that the majority of people with BPD experience at some point in their lives (prevalence estimates range from 50-80+%).
We decided to separate suicide and self-harm for the purposes of this mini series because the two things are often conflated and are actually super distinct phenomena.
Together we explore our personal experiences with self-harm, how they different from suicidality, and how we've learned healthier coping mechanisms.
Throughout our discussion we emphasizes the importance of harm reduction and the need for understanding and compassion in addressing self-harm (aka don't freak out if someone is self-harming. That doesn't help).
Please listen to this episode with care. While we usually don't talk about self-harm methods on the podcast we did briefly in this conversation.
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