Healing

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Healing

Healing is a very important part of getting well, just as important as taking your medication if you are on any at all. This page isn't here to tell you what to do, it is just here for some support and tells of other ways that people with MHI, heal. The things that they do and so forth. It just may be fortunate that some of them may also be of benefit to yourself, all these healing techniques are free and there is no cost at all, maybe only a little of your time if you wish to give any of them a go. But remember what works for one person may not work for another person. But, you still have nothing to loose by giving it a go.

My illness is Borderline Personality Disorder, and it is a very complicated illness and therapists don't like to deal with us if they don't have to as BPD is very complicated to treat, this I found out from experience. So I decided to go on the journey of healing myself and tried many different techniques in my determination to heal and control this illness and the others associated with it. (You see, with BPD we are not dealing with just one illness but several rolled into one heading).

My healing consisted of dealing with deep depression, pyschosis, paranoia, agrophobia, panic attacks, rage, suicidal thoughts, anxiety, self injury etc.

The first step to my healing for me was to realize that I had this illness and then to learn as much as I could about it, so that I had an understanding of it. This I felt was the only way that I could begin to heal.
The second step for me was to really want to heal with all my heart, mind and soul. To live the life that I only dreamt of. With the two above sorted out and agreed with, I went on my way to self healing.

I first decided that I had to remove anything that made me feel negative, down or upset. This can be done in so many ways, I went and got my hair cut and sewed up a heap of new cushion covers and changed my house around. It made me feel good, and that was what was important to my healing I HAVE TO FEEL GOOD AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

I wanted my house to have a relaxing atmosphere about it, so what I did was made it that way, I have incence & oil burners and lots of little candles in my lounge room, which I light at night whilst watching television, this relaxes me alot.
I also found that nice hot bubble baths with aromatherapy scents and candles burning was also relaxing and made me feel good. I also spent time by myself in the park just sitting there enjoying the peace and quite and watching the innocence of the wildlife around me. I also made myself a heap of new clothes that I liked and made me feel good. I read a heap of books on self healing and relaxation and stress relief, and even a book on eating the right foods for Mental Health Illness. Yep that is right, so I adjusted my diet a little also and took up my martial arts again. The other thing that I did was take up a new craft and I love it so much I really feel like I have acheived a masterpiece with each one that I make and that makes me feel good.

With the lighter side of my self healing journey aside I had to also deal, face, accept and remove past memories that were very damaging to me and my healing, some of these memories were very self destructing to me.

I tried so many different techniques to try and get rid of them, but alot of the techniques only triggered me into a deeper depression and psychosis.
But finally I found a technique that was just great for me, it was a combination of a few put together and the balance it gave me was great. I learnt to recognise, accept and release the memories. This method is easy to do and use and you have control over it, I must say though that it doesn't work overnight. It is a slower method but gives you more control and calmness about your past triggers.

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