Sister, You know I'd not put 2 and 2 together regarding boundaries and protecting us from the world around until your post yesterday. I understood the need for personal boundaries, but one of my biggest problems has been a feeling of being caught up in every aspect of life. Like when I can hear neighbours next door, I'd start going into anxiety mode feeling like I had been invaded by outside forces, no resistence to external simuli....but today at work there was some drama going on and everyone in the canteen was beavering away with it all and I felt like this invisible force field around me that enabled me to just separate myself, or as T puts it "gives me a feeling of edges"..yes before everything was just one big blob...now I am getting a feeling of where I end and"others" begin and it takes the anxietys away...the world use to be very frightning because I felt I had no well to go, now I have an outline...I guess until one experiences that feeling we just don't know? I am very happy to have my edges and sense of personal space emotionally....