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Topher Edwards

Goodreads Author

Born

in Canada

Website

http://www.topheredwardsauthor.wordpress.com

Genre

Memoir, Psychology, Personal Journals

Member Since

July 2020

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/topheredwards

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For over a decade, Topher has been plagued by mental illness. Through countless diagnoses, dozens of medications, doctors, counselors, and unbearable psychological pain, writing seemed to be not only an escape, but a way to make sense of what he was feeling.

What was once a journal meant never to be read by anyone else turned into a book. Topher saw the state of the mental health system and the stigma surrounding mental disorders and set out to show people what suffering from such an unpredictable and insidious illness really looked like. "The BPD Journals: A Year in the Life” was the first instalment in the raw and unfiltered "The BPD Journals" series.

Seeing the positive response to the first book, he released a second volume titled "The ...more

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Topher Edwards's Blog: 'The BPD Journals' Series

Exciting News!

Look forward to not just one, but TWO new releases coming soon!

That's right, I will be releasing a collection containing the first three books of The BPD Journals series together as one volume. It will improve the reading experience, continuity, and contain some bonus material regarding my next project!

More details on the release date and how to purchase will be available soon.

The second release w Read more of this blog post »

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Published on October 08, 2020 09:52 • Tags: bpd, kindle, memoirs, mental-illness, series, topher-edwards

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Average rating: 3.68 · 34 ratings · 3 reviews · 5 distinct works

	The BPD Journals: A Year in the Life 3.54 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The BPD Journals III: Stable Instability 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The BPD Journals II: Remission and Relapse really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The BPD Journals Collection 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bpd Journals: A Year in the Life by Topher Edwards (2016-02-18) by Topher Edwards (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Most of the time I lack closure; a reason. Without closure, you are perpetually haunted by the separation. Even if the reason is obvious, there is no easy way to move on, despite what people say. I have lost enough to know that when people say "You are better off" or "Just move on", they do not understand. Most of the pain comes not from the separation itself, but from the chaos created internally.”
― Topher Edwards, The BPD Journals: A Year in the Life

tags: closure, depression, loss, mental-health, mental-illness, pain

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“Sometimes the darkness seems too much, the weight you carry threatens to crush you, and optimism becomes a foggy abstraction.”
― Topher Edwards, The BPD Journals III: Stable Instability

tags: darkness, depression, mental-health, mental-illness

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Topher’s Quotes

“Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self—to the mediating intellect—as to verge close to being beyond description.”
― William Styron, Darkness Visible

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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality

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“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humour

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“You will remind yourself, she will remind you, you will remind each other, that this is for the best, that you are physically incapable of loving one another,”
― Neil Hilborn, Our Numbered Days

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This group is dedicated to connecting readers with Goodreads authors. It is divided by genres, and includes folders for writing resources, book websit ...more

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Support for Indie Authors — 16532 members — last activity Sep 07, 2025 09:11AM
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Making Connections — 14700 members — last activity Sep 07, 2025 05:19AM
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Goodreads Librarians Group — 292836 members — last activity 1 minute ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

THE Group for Authors! — 12850 members — last activity 9 hours, 45 min ago
This is a group for authors to discuss their craft, as well as publishing and book marketing.

Goodreads Reviewers' Group — 12977 members — last activity 10 hours, 24 min ago
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Writers Worth — 1517 members — last activity Jun 21, 2024 02:15PM
Book-lovers unite! Writers Worth is a group where writerly types meet & mingle, and everyone's welcome to promote books, sites, brands, services, and ...more

SIA Showcase for Readers and Writers — 1104 members — last activity Sep 02, 2025 08:41AM
From the group that coined the term bookwhack*, here is the official bookwhack group! In all seriousness, we at Support Indie Authors understand how ...more

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