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What Recovery Means to Me as Someone With Borderline Personality Disorder

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I have lived with emotional intensity and sensitivity for as long as I can remember. I first discovered I was “different” when I was in grade one and began crying during a read aloud on the carpet.

My teacher told my parents I was “too emotional” and that this was “abnormal” for a grade one student. I was taken to my pediatrician who told me to put on “magic sunglasses” when I felt like crying.

In a sense, to hide my tears; crying was something to be ashamed, and to hide. Of course, this did not stop my tears; the suggestion just encouraged me to hide my emotions, it also led the other kids to tease me for wearing “magic sunglasses.” What I think may have been helpful could have been educating the teacher with the fact that all children are

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