Voices Beyond the Border : Living with Borderline Personality Disorder

Voices Beyond The Border. £ Living with Borderline Personality Disorder Edited by L Robinson and V Cox. ISBN:
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The slasher, the cutter, the burner, the head banger, the biter, the swallower, the screamer, the shouter, the druggy, the piss artist, the destroyer; the OD in cubicle three. The time waster, the naughty and hopeless case, the pain in the arse, the crisis queen, the attention seeker, the unfit, the sad, the lonely, the nutter; the head case down the road. The weak minded, the stupid, the sicko, the deceitful, the manipulative, the failure, the lonely, the desperate, the inferior, the flawed; the scared and the scarred.

Judged and guilty as charged. To be gossiped about, frowned upon, nervously smiled at, ignored, rebuffed, laughed at, pitied, avoided, told off: The tryer, the talker, the singer, the mover, the dancer, the painter, the gardener, the writer, the explorer; the survivor.

Like the Water Lily, whose roots are sunk deep in the wet, cold, dark mud and silt, one day too, I want all this filth to feed beautiful blooms. Is there a me for them to see?

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And they laugh and they smile and they look at me and I wonder if any one of them stretched out an arm would it go straight through me? What is there here to stop it?

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The whole world laughs and smiles whilst I live like a shadow, a cloud, an ambiguous entity with no end and no beginning, a function of circumstance, the shape of my container, an amorphous collection of matter that indistinctly belongs to this thing called 'me'. Self is an illusion, an illusion I don't suffer. There is no me, just a hole where a 'me' should be.

A thick and solid empty space. If I take this hole and make it me, what then will I be but defined by nothing? Paperback Units in Stock Current Reviews: This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 01 November, Voices Beyond The Border.

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