5 Habits I Gave Up to Begin Healing From Borderline Personality Disorder
Plus 5 healthy habits I picked up.
Recently, I received an… interesting comment on one of my stories about life with borderline personality disorder (BPD). It was a little bit ironic, even. The reader who said, “It’s so strange that now just being an @@@hole has a disease attached to it,” closed their commentary by claiming, “I’m sure I will be hated for this.”
The irony of the comment, for me, was that the reader clearly sought negative attention by being something of an asshole themselves. They lumped all of the symptoms of BPD into being an asshole, and declared that it’s not even a mental illness but a choice.
What made the reader need that kind of attention, anyway?
To be honest, this is the kind of compulsion I used to battle in my worst episodes of BPD. We're not the only people who've been known to act out for attention. In fact, I was already planning to write about the habits I gave up to start healing from BPD when this comment caught my attention and reminded me.
To be fair, not every person with borderline has these same habits. And there are plenty of people without BPD who do these things too.
