Personality Disorders Awareness Network (PDAN)

09/28/2025

Recognize if you have PTSD,
then do the treatment… It helps!

09/24/2025

09/14/2025

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09/04/2025

Mindfulness and radical acceptance. 🤗☮️

So much of our suffering comes not from what happens to us, but from how much we resist it. We fight with reality, we try to control people, and we get angry when life doesn’t unfold exactly how we imagined. But here’s the truth: not everything is within your control—and that’s okay.

💡 When you spend your energy trying to change others, you only end up frustrated. People will be who they are until they decide to change. And many situations in life—delays, losses, setbacks—are outside your hands no matter how much you push.

⚖️ What you can control is your response. Your mindset. Your attitude. Your peace. Instead of feeding anger and heartache, practice acceptance. Letting go doesn’t mean giving up—it means freeing yourself from the chains of what was never yours to hold.

🌿 Imagine this:

You can’t stop the storm, but you can carry an umbrella.

You can’t silence every critic, but you can choose not to listen.

You can’t change someone’s heart, but you can protect your own.

✨ Peace begins the moment you stop trying to control the uncontrollable. Protect your energy. Let go of what isn’t yours to fix, and you’ll find that life feels lighter, calmer, and more meaningful.

09/02/2025

You are not alone 💜

https://lifeline-international.com/

^ lifeline has an international support service which will help you connect with someone in your area 💜

08/16/2025

5 Ways OT (Occupational Therapy) Can Help Kids Regulate Emotions

1. Teach calming strategies.
These may include breathing techniques, yoga poses, self-talk strategies, education on their own body awareness through interoception.

2. Teach children how to label their feelings and emotions.
Children struggle with language and need help putting words to their emotions and feelings.

3. Challenge their processing skills.
Learning how to use problem-solving in a safe space can help children learn how to solve problems in more challenging situations when they arise. OTs use real-life scenarios and break them up into smaller parts to identify triggers. Then work through how they processed the past information/details of the incident, and what they can do differently next time. This also works with a made-up scenario, in which the child has to think ahead to something that may happen in the future.

4. Integrate movement such as an obstacle course with varied sensory, balance, and regulation activities.
This helps to improve sensory regulation and problem solving. Have them set up obstacle courses with peers so they can practice expressing their wants and needs to others. This can be mimicked at home while learning a new game or setting up your own course in the backyard with household items!

5. Focus on the senses (visual, auditory, oral, olfactory, tactile, proprioception, vestibular). Utilize a calming/sensory basket or find other ways to incorporate beneficial activities - see list at the link in comments.
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Text by beyond-boundaries
Apr 10, 2023
Click on link in comments

07/26/2025

This is one of the few pieces arguing Autism is overdiagnosed while BPD is under diagnosed. It’s the polar opposite of my experience.

Link in first comment

07/14/2025

From DBT therapist Christine Dunkley…

My top tip today is conceptual.
It's about a rarely discussed side effect of having a diagnosis of 'personality disorder'.

It's the way this label can subtly drag your lifestyle choices into question.

Here are things I have seen listed as adult treatment targets;
Choosing unsuitable partners
Using cannabis
Having casual s*x
Getting tattoos
Getting angry

So, quick survey;

Raise your hand if you think someone in your immediate family or friendship group chooses unsuitable partners.

Hmm, that was quite a lot of hands there!

Know anyone who does cannabis?

Heavily tattooed?

I rest my case.

It's different if someone says, "I am addicted to getting tattoos, I want to stop, can you help me?"

Or, "I just end up sleeping with anyone and hate myself afterwards.I don't want to do this any more."

But it's not our call. People without diagnoses can make poor choices, mess up, have unhealthy habits and even cross a legal line, without it being deemed a psychological illness.

Don't worry. If using cannabis, say, makes it more likely the client will harm, it will show up as a link in the chain. So you get to analyse its role as a controlling variable at that point. And if it never shows up, it probably wasn't relevant. We don't want to imply without assessment; 'Other people can do recreational drugs, but not you'.

Oh, and rest easy, no names were mentioned in my 'hands-up' poll. So whoever you thought of, it will be our little secret.

07/13/2025

Everyone should go to therapy on their first date. 😲😎❤️😇

You didn’t think you were going to learn about dating and loving on this page. 😅
Aija Mayrock and Nuseir Yassin are right.

Imagine the spirit this would bring to families with conflict. Love could be like water to fire. 💦 🔥💚❤️