Borderline Personality Blog: Healing - Coping - Improving

In other entries, I often am very critical of my family. I am especially critical of some of the decisions my parents made, particularly concerning the way in which I was brought up, socialized, and disciplined.
To be fair to all sides, I must write an entry about the stress I caused the family, pre borderline […]

I know, this sounds terrible. But what do I mean by it?
I tend to personify the family animals, and pretend they are human. Since I’m only home for 2 weeks out of the year, I often pretend that they are with me, keeping me company when I am alone or at my side when I […]

I’ve read elsewhere on the web that one aspect of BPD is a low tolerance for stress, emotional, phsyical, or otherwise. This inevitably causes a lot of raw emotions to flare up, and can get in the way of accomplishing tasks that require some degree of dealing with stress.
One example that my inner critic always […]

One of the most painful fears for a BPD is abandonment. Taken literally, this can mean abandonment (or loss of) parental, romantic, or companion affections. In a more abstract sense, the BPD may fear a loss of a particular feeling, experience, or idea that can be the result of a traumatic event, unexpected change, or […]

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