it's, in some sense, an overwhelming sense of feeling bad, and it may include elements of depreion, of rage, of anxiety, but mostly it's just a state of terrible distress. one of the intriguing things about the disorder ishat this state distress is usually triggered by specific kinds of events-- a real, or perhaps eve an imagined loss, or a rejection. what then happens is equally intriguing and disturbing because these dysphoric stat are so upsetting that t individual has to do something to stop them, and they take a number of different avenues to try to end this dysphoric state. sometimes they can find a person, and the person can somehow comfort them and modula and end this state. another approach that's us is either taking an overdose wrist-cutting or cigarette burns-- or other forms selinjury. i was feeling scar. i was feeling lonely um...i was feeling a lot of things that i just needed a release from. but i waselin also feeng unreal, like i couldn't touch ality. my one way of touching reality was to cut myself and to see the blood. that always made me feel better. a loof times, i