Borderline Personality Disorder Community Group
Support for those suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder. Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious mental illness characterized by pervasive instability in moods, interpersonal relationships, self-image, and behavior. This instability often disrupts family and work life, long-term planning, and the individual's sense of self-identity. Originally thought...
I just got a confirmed diagnosis of BPD yesterday. My psychiatrist first told me I probably had it 2 years ago but i wouldnt accept it then.
Now I am less resistant because maybe if there are other people who feel like me I will not feel so much of a freak and hate the way I am so much.
But also I am scared because I have heard a lot that you can never get well from it and if I have to be like this for the rest of my life then I think I would rather die now.
I want to be different and I have been in therapy for a long time but I still dont really know what to do to change.
Do other people feel like this? Not want to feel this frightened and broken for the rest of their lives?
Is there sites I can go to or books i can read that will help me to see that changing is possible.
Thanks for any help. I am lonely with this at the moment.
Now I am less resistant because maybe if there are other people who feel like me I will not feel so much of a freak and hate the way I am so much.
But also I am scared because I have heard a lot that you can never get well from it and if I have to be like this for the rest of my life then I think I would rather die now.
I want to be different and I have been in therapy for a long time but I still dont really know what to do to change.
Do other people feel like this? Not want to feel this frightened and broken for the rest of their lives?
Is there sites I can go to or books i can read that will help me to see that changing is possible.
Thanks for any help. I am lonely with this at the moment.
Thats true there is no cure, but they can give you medications, therapy, group therapy, coping strategies and other things. Someday you may get to the point where its okay and your used to it, I ma not there either but someday.
You don't change because other people want you to. do it for you, change what your therapist suggests, but also you have to learn to think for yourself and that is hard sometimes. change is possible but it takes a long time and lots of meds and therapy..... it might take up to a year to see results, I am still not seeing results . But just hang in there and talk to other bpd's.