Question: Can you describe situations where you felt a strong need to prevent someone from leaving you, either physically or emotionally? Have you felt this need often?
Answer: No. I don’t stop someone if they want to leave me.

Question: Do you feel that your interpersonal relationships with those you are close to are unstable? Have you experienced patterns where you alternate between seeing someone as wonderful and then seeing them as terrible?
Answer: Yes. I happen to perceive someone as wonderful or as mean based on how they treat me. Sometimes they are nice and sometimes not and it changes quite frequently

Question: Can you talk about how you see yourself? Does your perception of yourself (how you view yourself) change frequently?
Answer: Not really. My perception of me is pretty constant. I feel like I am incapable of doing a lot of things and am slower than most people

Question: Can you describe any impulsive and potentially self-damaging behaviors you engage in, such as spending money irresponsibly, unsafe sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, or binge eating?
Answer: I binge eat sometimes a lot. Sometimes I have these urges to just eat. And it’s not even because I m hungry or anything . I eat because I m bored. These episodes occur more frequently at night.

Question: Can you describe any incidents where you engaged in self-harm or made repeated suicide attempts?
Answer: Nope. ALHAMDULILLAH.

Question: Does your mood change frequently throughout the day? Are there times when you feel intensely happy, sad, anxious or irritated for no apparent reason?
Answer: Yes. I feel pretty anxious at night and my mood fluctuates a lot. I feel like I can read other people’s energy towards me pretty well and that consequently affects my own energy levels and mood. But sometimes I am sad for no reason and I blame those feelings on my hormones

Question: Have you experienced chronic or constant feelings of emptiness?
Answer: Yes. I just try to keep myself busy. But my brain hyper fixates on these things and thus keeping myself busy does not help but reading books does help sometimes

Question: Can you share any experiences where you felt extremely angry or found it hard to control your temper? Have you experienced frequent displays of temper, constant anger, verbal outbursts, or recurrent physical fights?
Answer: Yes . I sometimes get very agitated when things don’t go my way and yes I do lash out more often than I would like to admit

Question: Can you describe experiences where you felt intensely suspicious of others (for example, believing people wanted to harm you) or disconnected from reality, especially during stressful times?
Answer: Yes. In college, when I was really stressed because of academics, I felt like I was on autopilot and my brain was just signaling me to distance myself from the people of my coaching. I have no idea why