never set out to dedicate more than five years to researching and writing about how the behavior of those with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) affects family members. You don’t choose some jobs, they choose you. Or as singer/songwriter Carrie Newcomer puts it in “Close Your Eyes,” “How I got this job I’ll never know, but when it calls, you can’t refuse to go.” My involvement with BPD began as a personal quest. In the early 1990s, I learned that a person who had had a large influence on my life suffered from some of the traits of BPD. Since I had never heard of this disorder, I.
