Abstract

Long before i knew I had a personality disorder, I simply knew that my life felt unbearably difficult to live. For me, life has always been an uphill struggle, and at times I have just let myself tumble down the hill I have strived so hard to climb. Fortunately, I now understand how to keep going, and even to avoid falling down in the first place, but this learning process has taken the entire twenty-eight years of my life, and I still feel I have a long way to go. It feels very difficult to describe the early years of my life. To me, it was like being stuck in a cage, gagged. I can remember feeling a great deal of fear, but being unable to express it. My dad would burst into anger very rapidly, and my ..