Basket Case

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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 

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