Life Update posts have been very few and far in between, and that has been for the reason that nothing all that important of notifying has happened in my life recently. After my girlfriend moved in with me, a lot of things have remained more or less the same, but in a positive way. My life has found new kind of stability, something I haven’t experienced in my adult years at all prior. I am more than grateful for everything my girlfriend has done and continues to do for me on an everyday basis, because it has truly helped me find some type of grounding in this world, and my BPD likes that very much.

The only thing that still remains uncertain is our financial situation, along with the way the Finnish social security system continues to question my status as a disabled individual.

Mental Illness? Forget It, You’re Poor!

A lot of extremely unfortunate and downright ridiculous things have happened with the Finnish healthcare system in the last six months. Looking at the state of this country and how it continues to neglect its most vulnerable is becoming more and more painful by the day: I struggle to recognize this place as the beautiful country I have grown to know and love. It genuinely feels like the welfare system is being torn apart right in front of our eyes by the greedy right-wing politicians who only care about making the richer under the guise of “fixing the national economy”.