The Split: Borderline Personality Disorder by SweeneyToddSTC, literature
Literature
The Split: Borderline Personality Disorder
"They hate you. They will leave you for this" Your mind yells, while the person in front of you was unable to full fill the schedule. "This is your fault, you talked to much!" Your mind yells with the voices of your friends around you. "If I only did what they wanted..." your mind splits, you become a softer version of yourself, while raging vocally towards the outward person. The person may be or may not be an abuser "I hate you!" you scream, your heart tells you to stop, your conscious viewing behind eyes that can no longer see. You remember the entire fight. "I'm sorry.." You plea "Its to late, they have left! They are leaving, no longer your friends. No Longer Your family!" Your mind twirls and spins, not in swirls of grey, but one of those swirling pictures made to make illusions. But is your mind truly in illusions? Hallucinations? You ask yourself, the answer is not a simple yes or no. You see no ghost, no spirit, or fae, you see only your trauma. Images that flash and
How To Raise A Borderline by QuirkyCuriousBex, literature
Literature
How To Raise A Borderline
Don’t recognize your child’s needs,
or at the very least see them as
secondary to your own.
Ignore your child’s tears;
tell them to buck up.
Better yet,
tell them if they don’t stop crying
you’ll give them something to cry about.
That outta teach ’em.
Weigh them down with adult demands.
Expect them to cook dinner
at nine years old
because you’ll be home late.
Force them to grow up too fast,
or don’t allow them to grow up at all
because in a child’s dependent role
is where you can control them.
Don’t be consistent,
with anything.
Change your values like you change your sex partners