“Im not interested in Bob Marley telling me to lively up myself. The only music that satisfies me is Nine Inch Nails and Trent Reznors voice crying through industrial rhytms. In the August evenings,...”

“In some ways, coming to terms with myself and working toward recovery has been like saying I love you to someone but keeping a loaded gun hidden in your back pocket, just in case that person pisses...”

“DBT's catchphrase of developing a life worth living means you're not just surviving; rather, you have good reasons for living. I'm also getting better at keeping another dialectic in mind: On the o...”

“Thirty seconds of pure awareness is a long time, especially after a lifetime of escaping yourself at all costs.”

“But what if you simply don't have a solid self to return toif the way you are is seen as basically broken? And what if you can't conceive of "normal" or "healthy" because pain and loneliness are al...”

“Yet I also recognize this: Even if everyone in the world were to accept me and my illness and validate my pain, unless I can abide myself and be compassionate toward my own distress, I will probabl...”

“The role of the therapist is to reflect the being/accepting self that was never allowed to be in the borderline.”

“Owing to a poorly defined sense of self, people with BPD rely on others for their feelings of worth and emotional caretaking. So fearful are they of feeling alone that they may act in desperate way...”

“The borderline Queen experiences what therapists call "oral greediness". The desperate hunger of the borderline Queen is akin to the behavior of an infant who had gone too long between feelings. St...”

“Love, like madness, can only fill the models that society makes available.”

“PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free.”

“That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”