Anyone else with Borderline Personality Disorder?

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I got diagnosed two years ago now. I also have depression & general anxiety. I've learnt to be more in control of my illnesses but it is still a struggle to stay on top of things some days.

How is everyone else coping?

@SarahH12 Hope it doesn't take long for you Sarah, can I ask you a personal question, how much weight did you put on with the antipsychotic?? Does it increase your appetite loads, I'm starting mine Wednesday and I don't want to sound vain because I desperately need this med to work I am just so scared about weight gain, iv read people have put on 3-6 stone without even changing eating habits. X

everything crossed its not too long.

wish I had more support. the health teams are so stretched and stressed its not their fault. but it doesn't help.

I had therapy during the summer (16wk course) ended in july and was told id be contacted for follow up in sept. got a call last week for an appointment weds, lady's words were '' its a follow up and not a meeting for more therapy'' so it will be me sitting there saying how shit ive been coping and nothing can be done. again not their fault but it leaves me feeling more hopeless.
I don't believe borderline is curable I just think certain things make you divert and gives the elusion that things are better or pills mask it. but once something gets stressful or diversion goes. boom.
sorry its just my view. can tell im feel pretty deflated tonight

Cmblue I put on about 2 stone in a year. I've been working really hard to try and lose it and I'm now 1 stone 4 lb over what I was at the beginning of last year. I'm finding it really hard to lose weight though as I have physical health issues too which make intense exercise incredibly difficult and painful so I'm really limited on what I can do.

happyfrown that sounds awful.

I really wish there was more support available for mental health issues. GP told me to phone crisis team every time I feel like I want to self harm. But they're not there for that, they ask if you need to be admitted and if no then they tell you to go awah until you do

Hi there OP. I was diagnosed age 20 having suffered since my teens. I am now in my middle 30s. I had something called DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy) to help me. It lasted over 2 years and was very helpful. My symptoms have reduced. I am not saying they all gone- I am recently coming out of another bad patch but things have improved to a point I never thought could be possible.

I feel guilty when a crisis has escalated badly and yet when the symptoms start to disspate quickly after a few hours rather than a few days and I think people must be upset that I am seemingly happy and calm again? They must thinking I am making it up?

Hi everyone, hope you're all as good as you can be given the circumstances.

I'm in the process of trying to gain access to police and social services records in relation to the abuse I went through as a child. I'm hoping to get some questions answered so I can start to work through a few demons. I'm torn between fearing that nothing has been recorded and fearing what may be.

Arguing with DP again, stressing about Christmas and hating the miserable weather & dark evenings.

Feels like baby DD still never sleeps so won't update too often due to tiredness.

Everyone feel free to vent.

I was diagnosed about 8 years ago.

How have you coped with your Bpd @Candyapple49? Are you on any medication? Therapy that’s helped Have have you found work and relationships etc? Sorry for Spanish Inquisition it’s just new to me

After years of apparent depression and anxiety, I have recently been diagnosed with Bipolar, Borderline Personality Disorder and PTSD. I am having a depressive episode at the moment and am really, really struggling. DH doesn't even really acknowledge my conditions and I'm still expected to do everything in the house and for the kids, and carry on with the business I run and earn a good wage.

I was diagnosed with BPD at 21 after 8 years of hell bouncing around the system. I started with anxiety, then alcohol and drugs with anorexia, self harmed for years and was just totally unable to function.

This year I was diagnosed with Asperger's and now it's not clear if I have both or just ASD since the signs can be similar and ASD is commonly Misdiagnosed as BPD. I had 18 weeks of DBT too and it sort of helped although I just felt I wasn't quite the same as everyone else there.

Things are much calmer now although I still struggle with food because I like to have my same routine of making it every day. I have a DS who is very similar to me in terms of personality and my long-suffering DH has put up with my stuff for almost 8 years now. Getting as ASD diagnosis is somehow more palatable and I've improved massively in the few months since knowing that and accepting myself a bit more.

I'm taking drugs for chronic spasms but nothing for my moods because none of it worked (I've tried just about everything going!)

I too am feeling shit, been awake since 3, my mind just won’t switch off but I have a complete lack of energy or enthusiasm to do anything, they decreased my AD and that’s sent me lower, I’m in grands worth of debt by spending out of my means after losing my job, now I have to injure the lecture of my mother even tho im 28!!!
Her words “you can’t blame your illness on everything”....well try living with ptsd and Bpd for just one day and then get back to me mum!!
I can’t find happiness in the simple things like scented candles, martina Cole books, sunny mornings simple stuff, I don’t want designer shoes and shit I just want to get some happiness out of the simple things in life, I’m in a complete turmoil of emotion and as a single parent holding it together takes every bit of strength, I’m just fed up of this whole god forsaken illnesses!!!

Hi . I have had therapy for about 4 years . Cbt helped the most , but I had to wait for a stage where I was willing to accept help . I take quetiapine . Pregabalin and clomipramine . I feel ok now I am in my 40s . When I was younger I attempted suicide 3 times , self harmed every day and was in and out of hospital . Feel I am over the worst now x