Verrrrrrrry interesting, Docktor Freud. Haha, sorry. Okay. Um, I have always wondering that myself-- this is my personality? How the %#@&#! did I end up making it so that my entire personality is a disorder? I think the pathology and the natural perosnality intertwine, thus forming the personality-- me, I wouldn't give up my BPD for anything in the world. However, I would like to someday take some of the traits and turn them into more positive elements. For example, every negative trait has its positive opposite. BPD people are intensely afraif of abandonment-- positive opposite of fear of abandonment? Deep caring. Self injury-- a destructive, yet creative form of self expression. It's positive opposite? Writing, drawing, creating. So I believe it is all intertwined but it becomes a disorder when it is pervasive and trancends through all aspects of one's life-- work, school, home, etc.