BORDERLINE POEMS

When I was seventeen years old, I was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder: a mental illness that makes one have severe and rapid mood swings, unstable sense of self-image and behavior. When I got my diagnosis, I was searching for answers on the internet, books, articles and most of the ones I found were written by people who studied BPD* and not by people who are stuck with this mental curse. For my final Integrating Activity project, I will create a blog where I’m going to write poetry about people who reached out to me on my personal blog about their struggles with borderline personality disorder.

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Since I already run a successful blog and have many followers reach out to me and telling me their story, I will write poems about them. Not everyone is comfortable with having poems published online with their names and life about them, so I will reach out to the ones I already talk to and ask them for their permission to do so. Once I find people who are comfortable to be written about and share their story, I will write poems about them. Afterwards I will create a blog on tumblr that will be dedicated to their poems.

1) create the blog.

2) reach out to my followers, learn about their stories.

4) work on the blog, design etc.

5) write the poems

6) publish them on my website.