Beginnings
Extreme reactions-including panic, depression, rage, or frantic actions-to abandonment, whether real or perceived
A pattern of intense and stormy relationships with family, friends, and loved ones, often veering from extreme closeness and love (idealization) to extreme dislike or anger (devaluation)
Distorted and unstable self-image or sense of self, which can result in sudden changes in feelings, opinions, values, or plans and goals for the future (such as school or career choices)
Impulsive and often dangerous behaviors, such as spending sprees, unsafe sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, and binge eating
Recurring suicidal behaviors or threats or self-harming behavior, such as cutting
Intense and highly changeable moods, with each episode lasting from a few hours to a few days
Chronic feelings of emptiness and/or boredom
Inappropriate, intense anger or problems controlling anger
Having stress-related paranoid thoughts or severe dissociative symptoms, such as feeling cut off from oneself, observing oneself from outside the body, or losing touch with reality.
(http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/borderline-personality-disorder/index.shtml)
What are you most afraid of?
"Truly losing my mind, like going mentally crazy and not being able to find myself afterward. And living in a mental institution in constant mental torture.
Who do you really hate?
"Melissa Leonard"
Pre-college
Joey (splitting)
"I Drew My Pretend"
Borderline Personality Disorder
Archie
Palmetto
Ellie
The Big Trip
Praying Myself to Sleep
"Someone could beat me in the head with my own saving Grace, and I'd still reach for a suicide shotgun"
A pattern of intense and stormy relationships with family, friends, and loved ones, often veering from extreme closeness and love (idealization) to extreme dislike or anger (devaluation)
Distorted and unstable self-image or sense of self, which can result in sudden changes in feelings, opinions, values, or plans and goals for the future (such as school or career choices)
Impulsive and often dangerous behaviors, such as spending sprees, unsafe sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, and binge eating
Recurring suicidal behaviors or threats or self-harming behavior, such as cutting
Intense and highly changeable moods, with each episode lasting from a few hours to a few days
Chronic feelings of emptiness and/or boredom
Inappropriate, intense anger or problems controlling anger
Having stress-related paranoid thoughts or severe dissociative symptoms, such as feeling cut off from oneself, observing oneself from outside the body, or losing touch with reality.
(http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/borderline-personality-disorder/index.shtml)
What are you most afraid of?
"Truly losing my mind, like going mentally crazy and not being able to find myself afterward. And living in a mental institution in constant mental torture.
Who do you really hate?
"Melissa Leonard"
Pre-college
Joey (splitting)
"I Drew My Pretend"
Borderline Personality Disorder
Archie
Palmetto
Ellie
The Big Trip
Praying Myself to Sleep
"Someone could beat me in the head with my own saving Grace, and I'd still reach for a suicide shotgun"