How would you explain what borderline personality disorder is to someone who doesn’t have it?
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As if speaking to a 5 year old, because I’ve made almost this exact statement to my sister’s kids about another family member who has BPD.
“You know how sometimes you feel happy or sad and other times you feel really happy or very sad? That’s what it’s like for (redacted) all the time. Their brain makes it so they only have big feelings. That means that they don’t often get to have the in-between feelings that you and I have and sometimes can go from feeling ok to having rally big feelings really fast. It feels fast to us, but it’s normal for (redacted). It can be really hard work to have big feelings , all the time like they do, and that’s part of why they’re so tired all the time.”
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