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Holding up the Sky: The Weight of Borderline Personality Disorder
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 11 2026
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
For MA, survival is a manual process.
At 07:00, the weight of the world isn't a metaphor; it's a physical law that pins her to the mattress. A hospice nurse by trade, MA is an expert at the Performance-the precise configuration of a smile, the steady pitch of a voice, and the sterile efficiency of a caregiver. She spends her days filling the cups of the dying while her own soul has been dry for years.
But when the mask begins to slip, the Nothing rushes in.
Trapped between a job that mirrors her own internal decay and a marriage she is terrified of crushing with her own shadows, MA retreats into a frantic, chemical war. Armed with bleach and a manic desperation, she attempts to scrub away the evidence of her existence, believing that if the house is sterile enough, her husband won't see the ash where his wife used to be.
A visceral, minute-by-minute descent into the physics of Borderline Per, Holding Up the Sky is a haunting exploration of the staggering cost of pretending to be okay.
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