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Sometimes I Act Crazy: Living with Borderline Personality Disorder Hal Straus, Jerold J. Kreisman
Publisher: Wiley

Sometimes I convince myself I'm not real, or that the world around me is not real, a phenomenon that can be very unsettling. I have been really torn as to whether I should share this info or not. In essence, if you are around an extroverted BPD, you feel like you're living through their emotions while coping with your own at the same time. Sometimes likened to being on an emotional rollercoaster, each swing up then down affects one's behaviour, energy levels, thought patterns and sleep. All facts, statistics, and information derived from 'Sometimes I Act Crazy - Living with Borderline Personality Disorder' all other information is original material from Jazmin Funk jazmin.funk@live.ca. It offers a wonderful insight to what life with BPD is like. I had a difficult time explaining to my boyfriend what it is like. Now It's sort of a catch-22; I fear abandonment so much that I start to act so crazy when faced with the prospect of it that it ends up driving people away. I have been reading a book about BPD titled "Sometimes I Act Crazy". The lithium made him predictable, made him possible to live with, made him stable and made him so so sad. Most counselors and therapists (the few that I'd seen way back More alarmingly, in the book Lost in the Mirror: An Inside Look at Borderline Personality Disorder, sometimes it's not until adulthood when borderline symptoms first break through. I wanted to show that everyone has issues, no one's life is perfect, but you can still be successful and live a good life despite obstacles, or mental issues. Living with BPD can be tough, especially when you go through all of your childhood not knowing exactly what is wrong with you but having the overwhelming feeling every day that you aren't exactly normal. Borderline, OCPD, and sometimes dependent PD are the only one's ever _diagnosed_, though narcissism is discussed (but never written down. Sometimes I really want to, other times I want to keep it to myself due to the stigmatism associated with BPD. It took away Oh no Ms C don't mistake me - the bloke I was thinking of when I began traipsing all over this sad turf of BPD - is infinitely better off without his uncontrolled outbursts. Ever since my teens, I had a fairly insightful mind and an intellectual grasp of the dangers of living in a dysfunctional home and could articulate what I saw the problems were. A diagnosis of borderline personality disorder could, theoretically, mean that the psychiatrist made a serious attempt at evaluating defense mechanisms and ego integrity; or at least a matching of symptoms to DSM criteria. And the Not all psychiatrists can live up to that, or live up to that all of the time.