Really, there is no normal. Or, if there is, it’s ever-changing and encompasses not only happiness and strength but pain and disintegration. BPD, for its millennia-old status as an outlier, can teach us how to be a healthy kind of normal, if we are willing to listen. It is the story of how one moves from chaos to stability; from a black-and-white worldview to a more complex one; from a life defined by desperation to one defined by a sense of who we are.
