The rapid mood shifts that people with BPD experience often lead to their being misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder. It is important to make the distinction between the mood shifts that characterize BPD and those of bipolar disorder.

The Lutherans, who have an Op Shop not far from ours, made friendly comparisons with the kind and quality of the goods. They had to get in through our Op Shop to the lower vestry and as they passed looked at our shelves and said ‘Amazing what people bring in’ and ‘We get quite a few of them too’.

There is a time, however, when a faint gleam of hope arises in the breast of the semi-funny newspaper man, and that is election time.

He loves her so much that he has a blind spot when it comes to her faults.