

Before this book, I didn't realize that a lot of the things I do that I chalked up to just who I am, are actually from BPD. It's a completely different perspective from what I'm used to seeing. It's very tough but It is helping me to understand the effect I have on those close to me and though it makes me feel really bad it's also been affecting my choices and I've been less snippy and thinking about what comes out of my mouth more often before letting it out. The doctors who wrote it are extremely blunt and honestly it's nice to have someone not sugarcoat it and call it for what it is when you get past it. I've noticed lately when I have an episode his first thought is not to get upset but to say something like "it must be really hard to feel that way how can I help?" After taking a break I tried to pick the book up again and tried to approach it with my guard down. He has a lot of Sympathy for the emotional turmoil he's starting to see is going on inside of me.


And he said it doesn't make him hate me like I feared, it actually makes him love for me more and understand me more. He says he wished he read this a year ago before things were really falling apart. My boyfriend/ex (it's complicated) is reading it at the same time and said he cried many times as he's been reading it because it's putting how he's felt in our relationship into words that he couldn't do himself. So I started reading "walking on eggshells" last week and immediately felt attacked and hated the author for having no empathy for us.
