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"They’re the chronically depressed, the determinedly addictive, the compulsively divorced, living from one emotional disaster to the next. Bed hoppers, stomach pumpers, freeway jumpers, and sad-eyed bench-sitters with arms stitched up like footballs and psychic wounds that can never be sutured. Their egos are as fragile as spun sugar, their psyches irretrievably fragmented, like a jigsaw puzzle with crucial pieces missing. They play roles with alacrity, excel at being anyone but themselves, crave intimacy but repel when they find it. Some of them gravitate toward stage or screen; others do it in more subtle ways…"
Clinical Psychologist Jonathan Kellerman on patients with borderline personality disorder.
Kring, A.M., Davison, G.C., Neale, & J.M., Johnson, S.L., (Eds.). (2007). Abnormal Psychology. United States of America: John Wiley & Sons.
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