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Living With Borderline: Symptoms, Diagnosis, and the Relief That Comes With Reaching Out for Help

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Hurtful stereotypes, fear of rejection, and overwhelming emotions. This is what people with borderline personality disorder face every day. Monika, Ola, and Justyna tell us how they took back control of their lives.

By Anna Korytowska

"For me, borderline shows up mainly as very intense emotional experiences and as difficulty maintaining a stable sense of self. I often don't fully know who I am, what I want, what's actually mine, what's coming from emotion or fear, and what's coming from the specific situation I'm in. This comes with a chronic sense of emptiness, and a sense of being detached from my own identity," says 23-year-old Monika Piotrowska.

Borderline: When You Feel Too Much

By day, Monika works as a personal trainer and creates video content for well-known brands. On TikTok, as @piotrxwskaa, she talks about living with mental health conditions and raises broader awareness of mental health issues. Here's how she describes the emotional world of someone with borderline:

"Sadness can be experienced like grief, anger like an inner rage, and joy can spill over into euphoria. Everything is very intense, whether the emotion is positive or negative."

From Poznań to Suez: 70 Years Ago, Revolts and Crises Changed Poland and the World

The Poznań June and then the Polish October, the bloody uprising in Hungary and the war over the Suez Canal. How did 1956 change Poland, Europe, and the world? By Łukasz Kamiński The story of the turbulent year 1956 has to begin three years earlier, with Joseph Stalin's

Is This Already World War III? The New Conflicts Don't Look Like the Old Ones

Gideon Rachman: Global conflict is one of the main elements of world leaders' strategic thinking. Should we be ready for a new axis of evil? By Mateusz Mazzini and Gideon Rachman Mateusz Mazzini: You're about to publish a book on the risk of a new global war.

Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet: The Whirling Meaning of What we Read

Anne Carson, the Canadian poet and essayist, has for years been named among the leading contenders for the Nobel Prize in Literature. It's no wonder Polish publishers are showing growing interest in her books. By Monika Ochędowska Written in the mid-1980s, Eros the Bittersweet is both Carson&

A Botched Execution in the US. Where Does Barbarism Begin?

After nearly 30 years on death row, Christa Pike survived an attempted execution. Does the state have the right to try to kill her again? By Włodzimierz Wróbel On Wednesday, 30 September, Tennessee attempted to carry out the death sentence on Christa Pike, convicted in 1996 of murdering 19-year-