I think one of the hardest things about recovery with BPD is that the healthier you get, the higher your expectations for yourself often become.
And somewhere along the way I think a lot of us stop noticing how much we’ve actually improved because the goalpost quietly keeps moving.
I’ve seen so many people with BPD talk about themselves like they’re failing recovery while describing levels of self-awareness, accountability and emotional reflection they never had years ago.
Sometimes people with BPD become so aware of every emotional mistake we still make that we stop noticing the ways we’ve improved.
This is from my BPD blog but it applies to trauma healing too. Any type of healing really.
Are you really not making progress or do you keep raising the bar to make it impossible to meet your expectations of yourself? 🤔
