Hello my peeps, 

While I highly doubt I have BPD/would ever be diagnosed as having BPD, I think I was raised by someone that has BPD (I don't hate that person but it's definitely a different experience than perhaps my friends had). Anyhow, I recognized only recently I definitely have some BPD related symptoms and they're really ruining my life (shocker). 

Like many of you I experience overwhelming emotions, they are difficult to manage and I didn't really know how to cope with them. I hit a DBT workbook and so far has helped me significantly. I still mess up but I'm proud of myself for always trying regardless of how many times I fall. I started to doing activities again as a way to distract myself before i enter into the vicious cycle that is to feel things. The activities include reading, walking, playing the ukulele and doing art 

Especially the creation of art has been really helpful, because I transmit my feelings in a way that do not involve involving another person into it. Also I've began to see my emotions in a more abstract way. I've began seeing it in the context of a moment or a frame of my life. It's not always my best work but the point is just to enjoy the process and get some release. It's been so helpful I'm starting to think I should always leave my house with pen and paper as a back up. 

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Have any of you had a similar experience with non verbal expression channels? What were your experiences with it? 

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 If not would you ever consider doing something similar? 