Personality Conditions

Clinical nutritionist and neurodivergent, Elizabeth Pattalis, discusses the need for diagnosis to guide effective treatment.

Licensed counsellor, Natalie Drozda, discusses obtaining an accurate diagnosis from the perspective of someone who is not only a mental health clinician but also has multiple neurodivergent conditions herself.

Autism is often misdiagnosed in adults as conditions like Borderline Personality Disorder, Schizotypal Personality Disorder, ADHD, or PTSD. Isidore examines the traumatic lead up to her autism diagnosis and highlights the difficulties of women and minorities, in particular.

Do you think dissociation is a scary clinical term that only applies to ‘mental’ people. Think again. Chances are, you dissociate regularly. Natalie explains how and why people dissociate, and provides some insightful solutions.

There is a great deal of stigma surrounding BPD. Jade sets out to highlight the neurological features of the borderline brain and show the reasons behind your behaviour.

The brain of a person with Borderline Personality Disorder is extremely sensitive to environmental stress, and the holidays are often the perfect storm of pressure and emotional triggers that can lead to a meltdown! Jade provides some coping mechanisms to see you through to the new year unscathed…

Many people are beginning to put 2+2 together to see the links between the diagnoses of autism and Borderline Personality Disorder. Jade points out five ways the two conditions overlap.

Jade discusses one of the mechanisms behind why memes can be so good for our mental health.

Are you a highly sensitive person and struggle to control your feelings? In this post, Astrid explains why she believes there’s no such thing as being ‘too’ sensitive or emotional.

Self-hatred is so strong with Borderline Personality that you can’t always see the hidden strengths. Jade writes about why your brain is capable of amazing things if it’s just given the chance.