A crucial element of the real self is its unconditional…

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

— Michael Adzema

“Cincinatti was where I learned that running away from your problems has a three-month statute of limitations, a lesson I have found repeatedly to…

— Stacy Pershall

“Elantris was the one place where she could remember feeling unconditional acceptance. She had not been a princess, she had been something far better…

— Brandon Sanderson

...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for…

— Arthur Rubinstein

“Love, in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one-on-one sense, try this: we can say we love each other…

— Chris Crutcher

“Conviction rates in the military are pathetic, with most offenders going free AND THERE IS NO RECOURSE FOR APPEAL! The military believes the Emperor…

— Diane Chamberlain

“I couldn’t trust my own emotions. Which emotional reactions were justified, if any? And which ones were tainted by the mental illness of BPD?…

— Rachel Reiland

“Dissociative symptoms—primarily depersonalization and derealization—are elements in other DSM-IV disorders, including schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder, and in the neurologic syndrome of temporal lobe…

— James A. Chu

“To a large degree, a particular collision of genes and temperament with a suboptimal or hostile environment may explain the development of borderline personality…

— Dolores Mosquera

“The borderline Queen experiences what therapists call "oral greediness". The desperate hunger of the borderline Queen is akin to the behavior of an infant…

— Christine Ann Lawson

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline;…

— Kate Zambreno

“The theologian Paul Tillich wrote that "loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude." Because the borderline finds solitude so difficult…

— Jerold J. Kreisman

“The Queen is controlling, the Witch is sadistic, the Hermit is fearful, and the Waif is helpless. And each requires a different approach. Don't…

— Christine Ann Lawson

“To stave off the panic associated with the absence of a primary object, borderline patients frequently will impulsively engage in behaviors that numb the…

— Christine Ann Lawson

“There weren't as many layers between her and the world as there were with the rest of us.”

— Anonymous