The beginning

When I think of a life journey, I think of The Fool in the Tarot, or Christian in Pilgrim's Progress.  I know I am here to learn, to transform. If anything I have experienced or am experiencing can help someone else, I want to pass it on.

Finally diagnosed at the age of 53 with BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder) explains so much of what I have been through since infancy.  As someone else has written, it is like being born without a skin. (Williams 1998)

While I am relieved to know what is wrong, my preliminary reading on this subject is scary.  Yes, this is me--especially as I have been at certain times in my life.  But I imagine there must be a spectrum of behaviour...even within one's own life span.  And I feel hope.

I can move forward now, to work with my problem--which finally has a name.