The role of the therapist is to reflect the…

“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

“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

“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

“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 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 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

— Anonymous

“You survived by seizing every tiny drop of love you could find anywhere, and milking it, relishing it, for all it was worth. And…

— Rachel Reiland

“Sadly, psychiatric training still includes far too little on the very serious psychiatric sequelae of childhood trauma, especially CSA [child sexual abuse]. There is…

— Joan Coleman

“They love without measure those whom they will soon hate without reason.”

— Thomas Sydenham

“Research has also revealed that women who have developed PTSD in relation to early childhood sexual abuse often develop borderline personality disorder. Some severe…

— John M. Duffey