What having Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) feels like, really

One of the things with BPD is that typically there is a high sensitivity to abandonment Marshall lahan uses the analogy of those having BPD as having a third degree burn covering 90% of their bodies and so they don’t have that emotional skin to deal with the difficulties of managing relationships and their reactions are much bigger because touch to them feels so painful whereas the same touch or pressure to someone that doesn’t have the third degree burn wouldn’t get that reaction

And so it’s being very very sensitive to the world very sensitive to rejection of others it’s really always looking for a threat and sometimes creating that threat for ourselves because we in some weird way feel the most secure in feeling abandoned because that’s all we know to hear the rest of this conversation and to learn about many other topics as well search for our podcast clear your thinking with Spencer Greenberg on any podcasting app or go to

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