Progress in Chaos

Today I was able to use one of the skills I’ve learned from therapy to keep my emotional intensity from increasing! This is huge for me!

I was helping my little put lego together and it kept falling apart. I started becoming annoyed and in my messed up brain was telling myself that I can’t do anything right. That I always fail at even simple things. For once I was able to recognize that I had been triggered and was able to walk away and use a breathing technique to keep my EI (emotional Intensity) from getting higher.

I know for anyone who doesn’t have BPD it probably seems silly but it means I’m making progress and gives me a little hope that EI won’t always control me.