25 Quotes by Kiera Van Gelder

All the skills from DBT glom together, a mass of acronyms without any meaning. I pull out the DBT books and paw through the pages. Something has to help. Then I find these words: 'The lives of suicidal, borderline individuals are unbearable as they currently being lived.

Accepting a psychiatric diagnosis is like a religious conversion. It's an adjustment in cosmology, with all its accompanying high priests, sacred texts, and stories of religion. And I am, for better or worse, an instant convert.

recognizing how even poison is a form of medicine when used the right way.

I’m so good at beginnings, but in the end I always seem to destroy everything, including myself.

All the skills from DBT glom together, a mass of acronyms without any meaning. I pull out the DBT books and paw through the pages. Something has to help. Then I find these words: ‘The lives of suicidal, borderline individuals are unbearable as they currently being lived.

Accepting a psychiatric diagnosis is like a religious conversion. It’s an adjustment in cosmology, with all its accompanying high priests, sacred texts, and stories of religion. And I am, for better or worse, an instant convert.

We do not deserve to be trapped in hell. It isnt our fault.

I’ve grown up with an ethic, call it a part, that insists I hide my pain at all costs. As I talk, I feel this pain leaking out – not just the core symptom of BPD, but all the years of being blamed or ignored for my condition, and all the years I’ve blamed others for how I am. It’s the pain of being told I was too needy even as could never get the help I needed.

I don’t know what I have,” the woman says flatly, tugging her sleeves down. “I don’t care what it’s called. I just want to stop feeling this way.