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You may believe that people are either completely perfect, or completely bad and hurtful, with no middle ground. You may fear your friends and loved ones will leave you forever if they get upset or angry with you. These feelings can cause you to act in the following ways around other people: Getting extremely frustrated and angry with those around you Having difficulty trusting people, even those you love Wanting - and needing - to be close to people, but fearing they will leave you, so avoiding them. Having unrealistic expectations of your friends and loved ones And that we were invincible. The storm was a doozy. It came in hard, like an army of dump trucks dropped from B-2 bombers. The rain was mercifully thin, but the lightning was like nothing I had seen (or have seen in the 20 years since). It clapped and boomed and lit up the sky right above our heads. Vicious bolts of lightning, the heat of which momentarily parted the rain around us with surreal warmth, slammed two nearby peaks. The hair on my arms stood on end. I was sure I was about to die, draped in aluminum and clinging to the side of a giant granite lightning rod. All the while, Yosemite Falls roared to our left. It was enough to make even a rebellious teenager put his trust in God. Ending relationships with partners and friends if you think they might leave you Constantly looking for signs within your relationships that signal someone is going to leave you. As you no doubt already know, borderline personality disorder can be exhausting.

The constant swings from exhilarating highs to crushing lows can make it feel as though you as trapped on an endless emotional rollercoaster. But the good news is, with treatment, most sufferers of BPD experience a complete or partial improvement of their symptoms. Many people find their symptoms improve markedly within a few years of their diagnosis. In addition, if someone experiences a complete departure of their symptoms, there is a good chance the symptoms will not return in the future. In the following articles we will begin to look at the many tools and techniques available for managing borderline personality. While the road ahead is guaranteed not to be an easy one, there is hope. With patience and perseverance, you too can be one of the many people with BPD who go on to live productive and successful lives. So I tried. As my partners climbed the last 100 feet and I waited, hanging from a pair of metal rings bolted into a steep, blank wall, I prayed. I also cried, screamed, kicked uselessly at the wall, and did a fair amount of whimpering. But the praying is what I remember most. Because at that moment, after years of faith, I felt nothing. No still small voice, no guiding presence, no flash of insight beyond a certainty that I was on my own. When my turn came to climb, I felt a moment of peace and resolve, then clambered up that rock faster than I thought possible. As quickly as we could, we crossed the rope that spanned the gap between the spire and the safety of the main wall. Once we were all safely off the needle, the storm stopped. Some might maintain that I was preserved by God's grace, even that I heard his voice in the storm itself; Learning to Control the Emotional Storm It is the emotional storm that most pointedly characterizes borderline personality disorder;

This emotional storm can leave you feeling utterly helpless, frustrated and/or detached from your body. When in the grip of the emotional storm, it can feel as though there is no way out, but the reality is there are many techniques you can implement to help you through the situation. By studying the following techniques at a time when you are feeling calm and centered, you will be much more prepared and able to manage the emotional storm when it hits. Developing a plan of attack to deal with such a situation can help you feel more in control the next time your emotions threaten to overwhelm you. Let's take a look at a few of the techniques that can be implemented when it comes to managing the emotional storm: Identify Your Emotions The first step in managing your emotions, it is developing the skills to recognize exactly what it is you are feeling. But it wasn't. Many times I have heard people say that God intervened in their lives in small ways: helping them find a parking space or encouraging them to talk to that cute boy at the other table. How did they know it was God? Because they felt his presence. That day on Lost Arrow, I felt nothing but my own heartbeat and the knowledge that my fate was in my own hands. Just as others feel God and know he's there, I felt nothing and knew he wasn't--at least not in the way I had always thought. On that day, absence of evidence was evidence of absence. Whether it was God or just dumb luck that saved my life, I haven't felt anything like my childhood faith since. I attended a Christian Science college because it offered me a good scholarship, and I followed all its rules. But I was out: my exit card was punched. When you are in the midst of the emotional storm wrought by BPD, it can be difficult to discern just what is going on. You are literally in a state of chaos, and you may be experiencing a number of conflicting emotions at any one time. If you are feeling emotionally overwhelmed and unable to pinpoint exactly what it is you are feeling, it can help to work through the situation a moment at a time.

Focus on getting through one minute, then the next, then the next. Breaking the situation down into smaller, more manageable tasks can help it feel more manageable. Focusing on identifying a single emotion within the storm can also help to manage the overwhelm. Give a name to exactly what it is you are feeling. Is it anger, or frustration? Exhilaration? Try and identify the emotion without trying to find the reason for its appearance or bring it to a halt. I was solidly dropped into the chaotic, often frightening material world of medicine, disease, and imperfection. Yet, I've often thought about the healings I experienced and watched as a child. The relief that we in our community felt in times of sickness was real; Every Wednesday night, Christian Scientists have a special, less-scripted service than the Sunday version, in which people in the audience stand up and share their healings. These people aren't lying, and they aren't fooling themselves. Something else is happening. Something was giving me the power to heal myself as a child. The nagging curiosity to understand that something compelled me to write this article. I'm not satisfied with explanations like the mind is a powerful thing. What happened that day in 1978 with a toddler in Southern California? Here are some of the physical symptoms you will experience with a number of emotions which may help you identify exactly what it is you are feeling: Quickened heart rate Quickened breathing

Tense muscles Tapping your feet Clenching your fists or your jaw Sadness and depression Physical ache in your chest Decreased appetite Anxiety and panic How can we explain the countless other instances of people being healed in ways that science has historically denied and disdained? Just as Copernicus pulled back a curtain of superstition and exposed a shiny new universe, brain scientists today are tugging at another curtain that promises answers to these questions. One of the most important answers lies in the discovery that our brains are hardwired to trick themselves from time to time. The key to this ability lies in a single word: expectation. It's impossible to overstate just how important expectation is to the functioning of our brains. This is not just the feeling you have before the next season of Game of Thrones or when you are waiting to learn whether you got that job you wanted. Expectation is both the job description of the brain and its currency. It shapes how we think and move in the world around us. It dictates how we respond to music, how we experience food, how we communicate. Advertisers study expectation to shape their branding, economists study it to understand markets, and linguists study it to see how we understand what other people are saying. Sweating palms Dilated pupils Body temperature changes