In the stories about Borderline Personality Disorder that Mala was familiar with, a borderline woman was always toxic – intense, erratic, angry, manipulative. And she was almost always the villain in someone else’s story. But no one ever talked about the *source* of the intense emotion – what was at the heart of it.

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More to read about borderline:

I'm A Black Woman with Borderline Personality Disorder | Business Insider 

Why I'm Distancing Myself From My Borderline Personality Disorder Diagnosis 

Diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder Is Often Flawed | Scientific American 

(Re)Valuing Borderline Personality Disorder as (Counter) Knowledge | Word & Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics 

Transcendent Luminescence, Ravaging Flames: On Alexander Kriss’s “Borderline” | Los Angeles Review of Books 

How Infinite Jest tethered me to life when I almost let it go | Aeon Essays  

Borderline Personality and Self-Understanding of Psychopathology | Psychiatry At the Margins 

Either all psychopathology is personality psychopathology or there is no such thing | Psychiatry at the Margins 

Transgender and Gender Diverse Patients Are Diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder More Frequently Than Cisgender Patients Regardless of Personality Pathology | Transgender Health 

I Have Forgiven Myself for My Pre-Diagnosis Recklessness | by Zuva Seven | An Injustice! 

Skill Issues​ | Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Its Discontents 

In the stories about Borderline Personality Disorder that Mala was familiar with, a borderline woman was always toxic &ndash; intense, erratic, angry, manipulative. And she was almost always the villain in someone else&rsquo;s story. But no one ever talked about the *source* of the intense emotion &ndash; what was at the heart of it.
<a href="https://www.wearemolten.com/s/Ep-8-BPD_Transcript.pdf">Transcript</a>
More to read about borderline:
<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/borderline-personality-disorder-black-woman-misdiagnosed-2022-5?r=MX&amp;IR=T">I'm A Black Woman with Borderline Personality Disorder | Business Insider</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/borderline-personality-disorder-diagnosis">Why I'm Distancing Myself From My Borderline Personality Disorder Diagnosis</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-truth-about-borderline/">Diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder Is Often Flawed | Scientific American</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.academia.edu/107173587/Borderline_Knowing_Re_Valuing_Borderline_Personality_Disorder_as_Counter_Knowledge">(Re)Valuing Borderline Personality Disorder as (Counter) Knowledge | Word &amp; Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/transcendent-luminescence-ravaging-flames-on-alexander-krisss-borderline/">Transcendent Luminescence, Ravaging Flames: On Alexander Kriss&rsquo;s &ldquo;Borderline&rdquo; | Los Angeles Review of Books</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://aeon.co/essays/how-infinite-jest-tethered-me-to-life-when-i-almost-let-it-go">How Infinite Jest tethered me to life when I almost let it go | Aeon Essays</a> &nbsp;
<a href="https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/borderline-personality-and-self-understanding?utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web">Borderline Personality and Self-Understanding of Psychopathology | Psychiatry At the Margins</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/either-all-psychopathology-is-personality">Either all psychopathology is personality psychopathology or there is no such thing | Psychiatry at the Margins</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/trgh.2023.0062">Transgender and Gender Diverse Patients Are Diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder More Frequently Than Cisgender Patients Regardless of Personality Pathology | Transgender Health</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://aninjusticemag.com/i-have-forgiven-myself-for-my-pre-diagnosis-recklessness-cfd9f43fbde0">I Have Forgiven Myself for My Pre-Diagnosis Recklessness | by Zuva Seven | An Injustice!</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.thedriftmag.com/skill-issues/">Skill Issues​ | Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Its Discontents</a>&nbsp;

Where do you go when your own thoughts are unsafe? Basket Case, a series hosted by Nicole Kelly (NK), decodes the kaleidoscope of mental health and uncovers how our brain contorts our reality through original reporting, tender conversations, and deeply personal explorations.

Where do you go when your own thoughts are unsafe? Basket Case, a series hosted by Nicole Kelly (NK), decodes the kaleidoscope of mental health and uncovers how our brain contorts our reality through original reporting, tender conversations, and deeply personal explorations.

Basket Case

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