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Mental Health

My Beautiful, Borderline Mind

September 6, 2017January 1, 2019 Sam Dylan Finch11 Comments

The self-hating borderline is the one that the world loves the most. It's an uncomfortable truth, then, when I tell people that I don't hate myself.

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Your Bias Against People With Borderline is Still Ableist

August 15, 2017January 1, 2019 Sam Dylan Finch13 Comments

So long as we keep treating borderline as synonymous with abuse, we take a very painful and difficult disorder and deeply stigmatize it.

Mental Health

An Open Letter To My Teenage Self (Before You Try To End Your Life)

February 25, 2017August 11, 2017 Sam Dylan Finch19 Comments

You will know what it's like to be in awe of yourself, startled but not afraid.

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