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

by Kiera Van Gelder

If someone throws a brick at you, it’s an opportunity to practice compassion—to realize that the other person is generating bad karma and therefore doing more harm to himself or herself than to you, or

while it’s unthinkable that I would pour a bottle of pills down someone else’s throat or slice another person’s flesh with a razor blade, the relationship I have with myself allows this option to exist for me.