The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating

by Kiera Van Gelder

“Do you want to be with me because you love me,” he asks, “or because you can’t stand being with yourself?”

Is my pain really that much greater, or am I just weaker? Where is the line between normal and abnormal emotional suffering?

The funny thing about awareness, though, is that you can know and acknowledge a problem and yet still make the same mistakes over and over. And

To drink from the source of someone else’s presence, no matter how sour it may eventually taste, creates a temporary sense of self.