I tried to help someone with BPD. Here’s why I stopped

What do you do when someone’s disorder makes them behave in an evil way?

It was a dark, cold late January day when a message flickered up on my screen as I huddled under the covers. A former work colleague, from some years ago, had reached out. I hadn’t spoken to him in maybe a year, maybe more, as he’d been in an intense relationship with someone our mutual friendship group- myself included- had felt very uncomfortable about. Perhaps it was the huge circles of rouge painted on her cheeks…