Today I got on the internet to see if I could find a good book about borderline personality disorder. I don't know how to tell my mom and thought that maybe a book might make it easier (perhaps I could just send it to her and not actually have to say the words...). The problem though is that I cannot find one that I like. All the ones geared toward family members and such of folks with BPD make such individuals out to be just awful. Horribly manipulative and disruptive to the family, a strain on family life... There is a lot of talk about how 'different' people with BPD are, as if they are some sort of alien species. How hard they are to live with. How hard the disorder is on the family and friends of people who are borderline. I don't want to give my mom a book that says “Here are some of the horrors you've got to look forward to”. I don't want her to be told how freakish, how screwed up, how 'different' I am.
And I don't want to be borderline.
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