The Paradox of BPD

Article on the paradox at the center of Borderline Personality Disorder:

It is the acceptance of the paradoxical irony that is the very nature of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) that is at the epicenter of recovery. Paradox exists within the center of contradiction. The apparent contradiction for those with BPD is found in the reality that what is understood and perceived borderline reality is not in essence real in the here and now. Rather, what is perceived and/or experienced in distorted ways now is really the dissociative re-experiencing of past traumatic events. In the active throes of BPD, borderlines, more often than not, are unaware of this. The inability to distinguish between the past and the here and now in times of triggered regressive dissociation is the root of the irony. This irony is housed within the borderline incongruity between what might be expected (or what one erroneously misperceives as unfolding) and what actually is occurring.

The notion that Borderlines have a difficulty with time and memory is interesting.http://www.borderlinepersonality.ca/borderparadoxepicenterrecovery.htm