Sad to say I have given up

caymandriver07
Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:23:54 +0000

ooh BPD Girl, that’s quite a can of worms you opened there :)

Since you brought it up, I have to wade in and ask how a parent would know if their child was deeply suffering…(it’s really a rhetorical question but i’m conscious that those parents among us who are desperately hoping it’s something else, not BPD, maybe something a nice pill could fix, might grab hold of your comment and run amok with it).

There be the danger when there is an illness that can’t be seen…no one knows what it’s like, it can’t be described, and with BPD, for those that suffer words can’t begin to convey their feelings, and for loved ones, we spend too much time listening to the words and believing them at face value rather than seeing they are just a vehicle for communicating a feeling for which we don’t have any context to understand.

Anyway, while i’m on the subject, BPD Girl have you ever seen the movie Mask, where there is a scene where the main character tries to explain colours to a blind girl. He uses temperature to convey colour. You have a great gift in your writing. Perhaps you could write a book, kind of like a translation guide for those that don’t speak the BPD language. I know your words have certainly helped me and others on this thread realise how much we don’t really know about what life is like with BPD. It’s a reminder I need, daily it seems.