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Article Title:	Kayla Kavanagh: The artist living with borderline personality disorder
Author of reported comment:	Sue
Comment Date:	19:13 on Jun 4 2014
Comment:	My ex-husband has Borderline Personality Disorder, as far as I know. It wasn't until I heard Kayla on Women's Hour talking about her symtoms that I realised I recognised his condition. No one else knew even though his father and siblings all displayed similar "rages within" which spilled out from time to time in different ways. The doctors didn't recognise it either, back in the 1970's to 1990's, and he was so adept at hiding behind a facade of ordinariness that they asked me what "my problem" was with my husband. We were married for 25 years and now he has someone else to be his crutch he is denying me any credit for having supported him and carried him along all those years which drained me and stressed me so much that I developed stress problems myself. Our children relied on us both very heavily financially, and they appear to have it as well, because now that they have loving and supporting partners, don't want to have anything to do with me for having effectively broken up the family (for the sake of my own sanity). While they prosper and do well, they leave behind a trail of wounded people. It took 12 years after the divorce for me to finally understand that it was not my fault, nor even his because he didn't even understand it himself. Thank you, Kayla, for coming forth on national radio and talking about this very vexing and difficult to diagnose condition.

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