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 even an imagined loss, or a rejecti. what then happens is equally intriguing and disturbing because these dysphoric states are so upsetng th t individual has to do something totop them, becaand they take a numberates of different avenues to try to end this dysphoric state. sotimes they can find a person, and the person can somehow coort 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 selinju. i was feeling scared. i was feeling nelyurns-- um...i was feeling a lot of things that i just neededa lease from. but i waselin also feeling ueal, like i couldn't touch reality. my one way of touching reality was to cut myself and to see the blood. that always made me feel better. a lot of times