Anyone who is contemplating suicide. Or self-harming. Or going through an intense emotional experience. To all those on the roller-coaster: please keep trying. Please allow this small token from a random internet stranger to work toward your validation. You are struggling with real, intense, valid emotions. It is hard. It sucks. It's one of the worst things I, personally, have ever gone through. 

So please take this as your reason. Your clarification. Your desire to keep going. Your reason not to self-harm. Your listening friend when you need tobacream and cry and throw things.

As someone personally on the road to recovery, I am terrified of my future without BPD. But I am hopeful and desiring that every one of you still on the journey and living with it, whether in treatment or not, is able to find peace in your progress. Despite what our illness leads us to believe, we HAVE made progress. Every day, every hour, every minute, and every second, you are succeeding in a battle with yourself.

Please keep going. This random internet stranger believes in you. Do what you can when you can.