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What is the main reason the speaker shares her experience?
What is the main reason the speaker shares her experience?
What are the two strong symptoms of BPD the speaker had in her early twenties?
What are the two strong symptoms of BPD the speaker had in her early twenties?
What did the speaker do based on the stories she made up in her mind?
What did the speaker do based on the stories she made up in her mind?
When did the speaker start to become aware of her behavior?
When did the speaker start to become aware of her behavior?
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What did the speaker realize about living our lives based on stories we tell ourselves?
What did the speaker realize about living our lives based on stories we tell ourselves?
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What does the speaker suggest to reduce suffering?
What does the speaker suggest to reduce suffering?
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Who does the speaker believe is more prone to believing their own stories?
Who does the speaker believe is more prone to believing their own stories?
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What does the speaker encourage people to do in relationships and different situations?
What does the speaker encourage people to do in relationships and different situations?
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What does the speaker suggest people look for before believing their thoughts?
What does the speaker suggest people look for before believing their thoughts?
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What does the speaker hope her experience can help others avoid?
What does the speaker hope her experience can help others avoid?
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What does the speaker encourage people to do to address these behaviors?
What does the speaker encourage people to do to address these behaviors?
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What is the intersection in the middle between emotion mind and rational mind called?
What is the intersection in the middle between emotion mind and rational mind called?
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Study Notes
The Dangers of Believing Our Own Stories: My Experience with BPD Symptoms
- The speaker wants to share her experience to help others avoid unnecessary pain and suffering.
- The speaker had two strong symptoms of BPD in her early twenties: paranoid ideation and fear of abandonment.
- The speaker would make up stories in her mind about relationships and people based on her own thoughts and feelings, often with no evidence.
- The speaker would act on these thoughts and feelings as if they were facts, causing problems in her relationships.
- The speaker started to become aware of this behavior in a massage therapy school class when a teacher talked about the stories we tell ourselves.
- The speaker realized that living our lives based on stories we tell ourselves can create pain and suffering unnecessarily.
- The speaker suggests challenging our thoughts and finding the intersection in the middle between emotion mind and rational mind, called Wise Mind.
- The speaker encourages people to question the stories they tell themselves in relationships and different situations.
- The speaker believes emotionally sensitive people or those with a trauma history are more prone to believing their own stories.
- The speaker encourages people to look for evidence before believing their thoughts and to challenge them to reduce suffering.
- The speaker hopes her experience can help others avoid making their lives difficult and causing unnecessary pain and suffering.
- The speaker encourages people to work with their therapist to address these behaviors and save themselves years of unnecessary suffering.
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