Huzzah! I Am Now In Recovery From BPD!!!

We can sift through the inputs of the past and the future possibilities and become our own thing. We own that decision. In that moment, we are that decision. ~ Monica. A Coleman, Making A Way Out of No Way, 74 Two Years ago I was diagnosed by my therapist as having Borderline Personality Disorder and when I was then psychologically tested, the result was that I had very strong traits of it, which I wrote about here . My therapist and I treated the results as if I had been diagnosed with the disorder. During that time I was in and out of Ridgeview's inpatient and outpatient programs. I had been in some tough situations and now was basically addicted to the hospital. I liked the feeling of being nurtured, being taken cared of, being validated and receiving kind attention. I also didn't trust myself to deal with my difficult feelings on my own without hurting myself-I love how Marsha Linehan calls people with BPD emotional third degree burn victims. However, the last