For the Girl I Used to Be: A Guide BPD, suicidal ideation, tips and tricks, how best support someone you love whose struggling.

I didn't always know how to explain what was happening in my mind.Some days it felt like everything was too much, and other days I felt nothing at all. I learnt to smile, function, and survive - but not how to understand it.For the Girl I Used to Be is a raw account of living with BPD, trauma, and suicidal ideation from the inside. It's not written as a perfect recovery story, and it's not here to pretend everything gets easy. It's written from the middle of it - from the confusion, intensity, pain, and moments where staying felt impossible.This book is part memoir, part guide, and part letter to the younger version of myself who needed someone to say, "I get it. You're not broken. You deserve support that understands you." Inside, you'll find lived experience, identity reflections, coping tools, and words for people who love someone going through this.This book won't tell you to "just think positive." It won't minimise what you feel. It will sit with you in the dark. And remind you that you're not alone in it. Because I used to be the girl who needed this book. And maybe you are too.