“ That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready, then you weren't ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that. Norah Vincent
“ You are a warrior in a dark forest, with no compass and are unable to tell who the actual enemy is, So you never feel safe .. Anonymous
“ I thought the doctor's diagnosis was the first step to mending her. I know now that a diagnosis is taken in like an orphaned dog. We brought it home, unsure how to care for it, to live with it. It rai… Christa Parravani
“ The role of the therapist is to reflect the being/accepting self that was never allowed to be in the borderline. Michael Adzema
“ How can I put this? There's a king of gap between what I think is real and what's really real. I get this feeling like some kind of little something-or-other is there, somewhere inside me... like a bu… Haruki Murakami
“ People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement. Marsha M. Linehan
“ Yet I also recognize this: Even if everyone in the world were to accept me and my illness and validate my pain, unless I can abide myself and be compassionate toward my own distress, I will probably a… Kiera Van Gelder
“ This will sound strange, and yet I'm sure it was the point: it was a bit like being high. That, for me, anyway, had always been the attraction of drugs, to stop the brutal round of hypercritical think… Norah Vincent
“ All the skills from DBT glom together, a mass of acronyms without any meaning. I pull out the DBT books and paw through the pages. Something has to help. Then I find these words: 'The lives of suicida… Kiera Van Gelder
