Self care can be incredibly difficult for people to carry out, especially those who struggle with their mental health. Doing something nice for yourself can sometimes seem ‘odd’ or ‘weird’ when in actual fact, it’s something that everybody can benefit from. Self care basically means to do something to look after yourself. Something nice, to …
Author Archives: meganbytheway
A Bit Of A Life Update!
So! This blog doesn’t really have a specific subject or topic to talk about other than me and how my life has been recently. On the run up to discharge and what has happened since, considering it actually hasn’t been that long. So I have obviously been in St. Andrews since December 28th 2019. I …
BPD and me.
CW; Self Harm, Suicide. BPD, my main diagnosis. It stands for Borderline Personality Disorder, its also known as EUPD, which stands for Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder. Personally i prefer EUPD, it explains what i struggle with more, being emotion instability, not having a ‘borderline’ personality. Yet i use BPD more frequently as people understand what …
Introducing me… again!
Well hello there! Long time no.. write? Speak? Read? Unsure of what word to use there. It has been what feels like forever since I last posted a blog, I guess a year is a long time. But regardless I am super excited to be writing again. This blog will basically be an update on …
My experience with emergency services.
I do just want to point out that this blog may be triggering. i will be mentioning police, ambulance, and incidents of suicide attempts and self harm (not in detail). Its going to be hard to type this blog as its difficult to talk about but its also difficult to determine how much I should …
Summer and self harm scars.
As its been warm recently I thought this was very appropriate to post. Its such a stressor when you’re hot but feel self conscious about going out in short sleeves because of self harm scars. Personally I used to really struggle with going out in short sleeves, I was so self conscious of people judging …
Introducing Me!
Well hello there my lovely, welcome to my blog! My names Megan, I’m 19 years old; born March 4th. This will be a blog of my mental health journey through recovery and (hopefully) onto a semi-normal life. Im currently diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). …
Meg’s Mental Journey! 