- Editorial:
- TIN HOUSE BOOKS
- Año de edición:
- 2021
- ISBN:
- 978-1-951142-59-9
- Páginas:
- 250
THE WAY SHE FEELS
COURTNEY COOK
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What does it feel like to fall in love too hard and too fast, to hate yourself in equal and opposite measure? To live in such fear of rejection that you drive friends and lovers away? Welcome to my world. Im Courtney, and I have borderline personality disorder (BPD), along with over four million other people in the United States. Though Ive shown every classic symptom of the disorder since childhood, I wasnt properly diagnosed until nearly a decade later, because the prevailing theory is that most people simply grow out of it. Not me.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e In my illustrated memoir, u003ciu003eThe Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Piecesu003c/iu003e, I share what its been like to live and love with this disorder. Not just the hospitalizations, treatments, and residential therapy, but the moments I found comfort in cereal, the color pink, or mini corndogs; the days I couldnt style my hair because I thought the blow-dryer was going to hurt me; the peace I found when someone I love held me. This is a book about vulnerability, honesty, acceptance, and how to speak openlynot only with doctors, co-patients, friends, family, or partners, but also with ourselves.
