Surviving Breakups When You Have BPD

Alex Boyd

*Content warning for self harm*

Breakups have always been rough for me. My friends seemed to move on much faster than me, but even more than that, they didn’t seem to feel the same nothingness that I felt when I was enduring a breakup. Until I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder this year, I didn’t understand why I would try to avoid breakups like the plague. I would sometimes…