These days, when people ask if I’ve recovered from BPD, I don’t say yes. Despite my current sense that the symptoms have shifted back over the border into the normal range of human suffering, I am aware of the potential for its reemergence—not as a pathology that needs to be cured, but a set of problems that make my life feel unbearable. And yet without a name for it, I never would have been able to learn how to transcend it. Indeed, without BPD, I wouldn’t have had the same opportunity to awaken. So while it’s undeniable that BPD destroys people, it can also open us to an entirely new way of
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