Midweek Update: Chasing a Unicorn

It's Thursday, and it's time for another midweek update. Unfortunately this midweek update comes with bad news... at least for the listeners who are anxiously awaiting the next release (haha - the four of you). I'll be on vacation this upcoming weekend, so no release coming this weekend. The following week, we'll be continuing the conversation on family and upbrgining, and introducing another tangent to that idea, Abandonment. Feelings of being abandoned are both common and intense for someone with BPD, and those feelings are detrimental to all kinds of relationships: intimate, family, friends, etc. How do you recognize these feelings? What do they look like? How can we respond to these out of control feelings, without blowing up our existing relationships?