“I never had a baseline sense of myself, of who I am, of what my capacities are,” she said. She wanted to somehow strip away the framework that had been imposed on her identity. The doctors at the borderline clinic initially resisted her request to stop her medications, but they also seemed to recognize that her struggles could not be fixed with technology. A few months earlier, one doctor had written on a prescription pad, “Practice Self-Compassion,” and for the number of refills he’d written, “Infinite.”
T_T <3
