Overcoming inner emptiness and loneliness: When borderline feels like a hole inside

“Why inner emptiness can be so tormenting at Borderline – and how self-care, structure, creativity and secure connection can help.”

There are pains that can be easily explained to other people. A broken arm can be X-rayed, the plaster is the visible proof of the injury. A bleeding wound can be disinfected and connected. A loud dispute has concrete words, a loss has a clear name and a socially accepted time of mourning.

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Loneliness in the relationship

‘There is a strange secrecy with which solitude seeks to sell itself in solitude.’ Hanspeter Rings (*1955), Dr. phil., German philosopher and aphorist

Is there a feeling of loneliness when you're in a relationship? I think this feeling will have been experienced by one or the other. 

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