Borderline Personality Disorder Community Group
For people diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, or family dealing with someone who has been diagnosed. BPD is an extremely difficult mental illness to deal with and I am hoping to be able to share experiences, advice and support to help people living with it.
Hi everyone.
I haven't been on this site for a long time, but I'm really suffering right now. I feel like my depression and anxiety have taken over me to the point where I can no longer function. When I'm not working I sleep all day. When I am working as I have been from home recently, I feel like every little thing takes all of my energy. When the work day is over I just lay here like a corpse. I have a dog that I can't take care of anymore because I can't walk him and give him the exercise and love that he deserves. I wasn't always this way. I'm 29. I have a masters degree. I used to be an overachiever who had a 4.0 GPA and wanted to succeed in everything. I went to film school, I studied art. I used to play the guitar and worked doing photography which I loved. I was creative. There are many factors that have made me this way, although I have had severe anxiety from an early age. A lot of it had to do with my appearance (and still does), but I remember staying home and hiding because of my acne and just feeling like I was repulsive. If someone saw me without makeup I would have a full on panic attack. I would be late all the time to anything because I had to try to look and feel perfect. My anxiety and depression came from maybe wanting control when I didn't have any. I had an on and off eating disorder throughout my life, I had fallouts with many many people. I was raped when I was 15. I have been physically and emotionally abused by my twin brother my whole life, and my mom emotionally abused me and always made me feel like I was ugly, crazy, selfish or not good enough. I also have had two suicides in my family - my grandpa and my uncle. I lose sight of all of my trauma sometimes, but what brings me the most pain is what I have done to myself. I blame myself for all of my relationships failing and all of my friendships failing. I truly feel so alone and insignificant. I feel like now I have little to no friends, and have often thought that if I died tomorrow it wouldn't make a difference. I feel like I've hit rock bottom and that I don't have anyone. I can't talk to my family either because they constantly bring me pain. I feel completely unlovable. I don't think I'll find love again. I am so crippled by this pain of being all alone that I just don't have energy to better myself. I think, why work out, why take care of myself, why even shower if I'm all alone? Who am I even doing this for? So I have let myself go. I literally just sleep, let my dog out to pee, eat and work. This is by the way one of the longest standing jobs I have had, there have been so many that I have abruptly left because of my mental state. Although I am able to work now, I am barely capable. There have been many times where I just left and ended up going into treatment. In regards to treatment - I have been once to inpatient and twice to outpatient. As you can see, it hasn't worked. I don't know what to do next. I don't think going into treatment again will help me. I've thought of suicide so many times. I live in my own filth, I don't take care of myself, I don't feel like I have anything. My own dog by the way bites me constantly. I feel like everywhere I turn there is pain. So I stay alive but barely, and just sleep and barely function. I don't feel like there is hope or reason to get better if I will be all alone with nothing anyway. I don't know what to do anymore.