BPD art and art therapy.

BPD artThis May is BPD awareness month and all month we’ve been posting helpful and insightful articles here on the OPI Intensive blog to try to do our part to help spread awareness about Borderline Personality Disorder. Estimates are a bit all over the map in terms of how much of the population is affected by BPD but a number that comes up a lot on the web is about 2% of the population. While we’re not sure that 2% is entirely accurate it is quite aware that there are a lot more people affected by BPD than the current population is aware of.

What does this mean? It means there are several people who are obviously undiagnosed but are living their lives with BPD –  which is a scary thought when you think about how much help and resources are out there for people struggling with instability or other symptoms related to BPD.

It also means that there are a lot of ways that BPD has affected people across generations. One of the methods people use in treatment of BPD is art therapy. Art therapy not only allows for catharsis for certain individuals with BPD but often times it helps for people in connecting with something they are passionate. Often times people will find a hidden talent or a natural born affection for drawing or painting that they never explored and connecting with such a passion gives them newfound meaning and a sense of identity.

Personally, as a great admirer of the arts, I find it fascinating to look at some of the amazing artwork that the BPD community has produced. The core of almost any artistic work is emotion and people with BPD are filled with a lot of very complicated, often conflicting emotions that really inspires some amazing work that pulls the viewer in and asks them challenging questions.

My recommendation for exploring some of this work is to simply head over to pinterest and type in BPD art and see the multitude of amazing of works that come up that are just breath taking.

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