Secondly, due to a latent understanding of the disorder there is a LOT of residual stigma and a lack of acceptance not only within society, but also within the medical profession as a whole.

Thirdly, there is always going to be that one person who thinks I’m living out the plot of Fatal Attraction – I actually had a LICENSED DOCTOR ask me if I was a “bunny boiler” once.

I’m not a bunny boiler, by the way.

The first time I sought to explain Borderline Personality Disorder to someone I shuffled through a few internal questions – How was I going to explain this to someone outside my head? Would it make me feel sad or proud? Where would I even begin? Did I even understand what was going on in my brain?

In his book I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me, MD Jerold J. Kreisman tried to explain to his readers what it feels like to live with Borderline Personality Disorder. He states:

A borderline suffers a kind of emotional hemophilia; she lacks

the clotting mechanism needed to moderate her spurts of feeling. Prick

the delicate “skin” of a borderline and she will emotionally bleed

to death.

Kreisman continues to note that mood changes come explosively, carrying the borderline from the heights of joy to the depths of depression while the inability to understand the origins of the episode brings on more self-hate and depression.