Great Expectations
A wounded child sits in a dark, dusty room with a few broken toys. Crooked pictures hang on the walls, pictures of a childhood lost to neglect and abuse. A rat scurries across the floor, its clicking...
View ArticleBorderlines Online
Technology has been vital in fueling my recovery from borderline personality disorder. From various websites, I’ve learned volumes about BPD and how to overcome it. On the Internet, I’ve found a...
View ArticleBorderlines Online Part 2
In my last blog entry, I wrote about how technology can make borderline personality disorder worse through constant communication and the perpetuation of bad relationships. In this entry, I'll document...
View ArticleMy BPD and The Three Floutists
Suffering from borderline personality disorder, I often feel broken, flawed, and less than whole. Intellectually, I know I need to integrate the parts of my personality to become whole, but...
View ArticleSearching for “The One”
Recently, through hours of coaching and introspection, I have identified a pattern in my life that will be familar to people with borderline personality disorder: a string of intense toxic...
View ArticleI’m no Bilingual Borderline
Parlez-vous francais? Moi, oui. I'm conversational in French and can read it well enough to follow a book or newspaper. I also suffer from borderline personality disorder. Does that make me a bilingual...
View ArticleMinor issues, major annoyance
I've seen many papers, articles, and blogs about the deep emotional pain and other severe symptoms of borderline personality disorder. I've seen little about the less intense but more annoying aspects...
View ArticleAdult Me And My Inner Child
This week I started listening to the audiobook version of Rachel Reiland's "Get Me Out Of Here." It's the story of a woman trying to recover from borderline personality disorder through intensive...
View ArticleGoodbye, Kato
One of the symptoms of borderline personality disorder I have traditionally displayed the most is a series of intense, unstable, interpersonal relationships. In my case, these relationships have been...
View ArticleBorderline Bastard
Most of the people I’m aware of with BPD have been subject to physical, verbal, or sexual abuse. As far as I know, I haven’t been subject to any of those things, so I’ve often wondered what...
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