How a community psychiatric nurse has helped Alex Williams come to terms with her mental disorder What is a personality disorder?
While I have friends I will worry about new people turning out to stalk me or being less than trustworthy. It is also hard to keep in my mind the fact that people care for me especially if they are not immediately to hand. It is a reactive condition. Frequently I have gone to bed wishing I was dead and the next day woken up and things were bearable again. Seeing my community psychiatric nurse will always help shift my mood as well. But when someone is offhand it feels devastating and I experience it as personal rejection. In the past I would not properly think through the consequences of my actions. As an in-patient I would use escorted leave to buy razors which I realise now would compromise the position of the people I was with. I once overdosed on medication a visitor collected for me before it could be handed to staff. I hadn’t thought of what would happen if I had come to serious harm and people who tried to support me were implicated. I have learned from my mistakes and to take r
