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One of the fun bits about BPD is a phenomenon shrinks like to call “splitting.” When under stress, Borderlines forget the existence of gray. Life is a beautiful miracle, or a cesspool of despair. The film you’re making is a Best Picture candidate, or it’s garbage. People are either saints, or they’re scheming to destroy you.
Jumping to conclusions is another thing Borderlines are great at.
unmanaged Borderlines have a partially deserved reputation for manipulating others.
But that’s a weird side effect of BPD; your perception of truth shifts so often in the normal course of daily life that crazy talk doesn’t automatically trigger your bullshit
Suicide is not a way of ending pain; it’s just a way of redistributing it.
“Dr. Davis says BPD has something to do with sensitive people being raised in ‘invalidating environments.’
Without a stable sense of identity—something most people have mastered by the age of four—it becomes very easy for other people to tell you who you are just by the way they treat you.
