The way she feels : my life on the borderline in pictures and pieces / Courtney Cook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cook, Courtney, 1995- author, artist.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cook, Courtney, 1995-.

Cook, Courtney.

Borderline personality disorder--United States--Comic books, strips, etc.

Borderline personality disorder.

Borderline personality disorder--Patients--United States--Biography--Comic books, strips, etc.

Borderline personality disorder--United States--Biography--Comic books, strips, etc.

Borderline personality disorder--Patients--United States--Biography.

United States.

Genre:

Graphic novels.

Graphic medicine (Comics)

Graphic novels

Comics (Graphic works)

Autobiographical comics

Autobiographical comics.

Physical Description:

219 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First US edition.

Place of Publication:

Portland, Oregon : Tin House, 2021.

Summary:

"A witty and one-of-a-kind debut graphic memoir detailing and drawing the life of a girl with borderline personality disorder finding her way-and herself-one day at a time. What does it feel like to fall in love too hard and too fast, to hate yourself in equal and opposite measure? To live in such fear of rejection that you drive friends and lovers away? Welcome to my world. I'm Courtney, and I have borderline personality disorder (BPD), along with over four million other people in the United States. Though I've shown every classic symptom of the disorder since childhood, I wasn't properly diagnosed until nearly a decade later, because the prevailing theory is that most people simply "grow out of it." Not me. In my illustrated memoir The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces, I share what it's been like to live and love with this disorder. Not just the hospitalizations, treatments, and residential therapy, but the moments I found comfort in cereal, the color pink, or mini corn dogs; the days I couldn't style my hair because I thought the blow-dryer was going to hurt me; the peace I found when someone I love held me. This is a book about vulnerability, honesty, acceptance, and how to speak openly-not only with doctors, co-patients, friends, family, or partners, but also with ourselves"-- Provided by publisher.

What does it feel like to fall in love too hard and too fast, to hate yourself in equal and oposite measure? To live in such fear of rejection that you drive friends and lovers away? Welcome to my world. I'm Courtney, and I have borderline personality disorder (BPD), along with over four million other people in the United States. Though I've shown every classic symptom of the disorder since childhood, I wasn't proprely diagnosed until nearly a decade later, because the prevailing theory is that most people simply "grow out of it." Not me. In my illustrated memoir, The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces, I share what it's been like to live and love with this disorder. Not just the hospitalizations, treatments, and residential therapy, but the moments I found comfort in cereal, the color pink, or mini corndogs; the days I couldn't style my hair because I thought the blow-dryer was going to hurt me; the peace I found when someone I love held me. This is a book about vulnerability, honesty, acceptance, and how to speak openly--not only with doctors, co-patients, friends, family, or partners, but also with ourselves. -- From book flap.

Contents:

The blow dryer is full of souls and other facts in lists

This is why I'm crying

God circle

Unreasonable times BPD told me I was being abandoned

Show me a happy person and I'll show you a liar

Not borderline as in "crazy," borderline as in "fuck you"

Trying myself on

The way she feels

Ten months in Europe

How sugary cereal keeps me alive

A marvel

Your body is a temple

I googled "borderline personality disorder" and wanted to run for the hills

I'd die for mini corndogs and various other obsessions

A by-no-means comprehensive list of things that have scared me half to death

Dear , I'm sorry I exist

Oops, I'm bleeding again

How caring for ailing senior pets helps me care for myself

Ode to the psychiatrist I hate who gives me good drugs

Sweet, soft life, I love you.

Notes:

Chiefly illustrations.

ISBN:

9781951142599

1951142594

OCLC:

1227790793

Publisher Number:

90105056671