Emo Reality: The Biography of Teenage Borderline Personality Disorder

Description:

When Lina’s idyllic childhood descends into mental chaos in her teenage years, Lina resorts to recording her thoughts in diaries, online chats and emails to make sense of her anguish. Through Lina’s heart-wrenching words, the reader steps into her broken inner world to experience first-hand the obsessions, irrationality, angst and ruthlessness of teenage borderline personality disorder. Emo Reality shines a light into the dark corners of adolescent mental illness, proving that this disorder is not just a phase, and demonstrating its ravages not just upon an individual, but also upon a whole family.

subjects: Teenage mental illness,  Personality disorders,  Parenting teenage,  Gifted child,  Teenagers,  Asperger,  Borderline family

People: Lina

Places: Singapore

Times: 1990-2020