MY DISORDER IS MY SUPER POWER: How I change perspectives to help to make my mental illness easier to live with ECLXXII

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM SHOW

I hope you are feeling great. I know that I have my vanilla cortados sitting right next to me, and I just feel amazing. It takes Starbucks, a corporation, to make me feel amazing. Oh my God, I am just feeling it today. I am feeling the love, the love of the caffeine and the espresso and the slave labor going through my veins. Yes, yes, I am.

 I talk about my mental disorders in some detail and how I have been able to see the positive things that came from them in order to get to the “next level” of life.  We can change perspectives of what is happening, despite we can’t change what is happening.  I guess it goes back to that Tony Robbins shit when he say “life isn’t happening to you, its happening for you.” But I will take the for you part because at the end of the day, shit just happens.  Also a nice little PSA for mental health professionals that don’t want to take on BPD clients.

So we have to find ourselves in the fury of the storm, and learn how we’re going to withstand it. Learn how we’re going to be able to look at the eye of the tiger with the fear that the tiger can rip us apart, but knowing that the tiger really can’t and the tiger won’t. Being in that storm, it’s not always about running for shelter. It’s about looking the storm in the eye and trying to get through it because maybe there is no shelter. Maybe shelter is not readily available at the moment. You’re fighting through the storm, there’s wind, there’s rain, there’s thunder, there’s lightning. It’s fucking scary. You just saw a tree 200 feet away from you get struck by lightning, and now the motherfucker’s on fire. And you’re standing there like, “What the fuck am I gonna do? So you have two choices in life. Your first choice is you can stand there and probably get consumed and die, or your second is you try to find safety, and yes, finding safety may not be easy all the time. Finding safety is a challenge within itself, but you can find it if you are looking for it.