Borderline Personality Disorder

The Basics of Recovery
 

This is taken from the Quebec association of Mental illness, called AMI Quebec

1. Remaining hopeful and envisioning a future growth and development.

2. Having the right to choose – without it there is no motivation

3. Knowing that you are not a label or a diagnosis. You are a living, changing person, not an object.

4. Speaking for ourselves. When others speak for us we are devalued.

5. Establishing our own homes in the community where we can choose our roommate or live alone.

6. Acknowledging the need for friends, peers and intimate relationships.

7. Realizing that peer support and self-help groups keep us grounded and connected.

8. Protecting and nurturing the spirit within us.

9. Knowing that all things are possible and that to be alive is a miracle.

10. Other essentials include: safe niches, natural supports, reconciliation with family, self-discipline and will, belief in oneself, successful experiences, meaningful work, psychotherapy, and passage of time.