Please or to access all these features

Mental health

Mumsnet hasn't checked the qualifications of anyone posting here. If you have medical concerns, please seek medical attention.

I think I have BPD. I'm destroying myself

6 replies

PossiblyBPD · 28/12/2021 19:10

I'm completely killing myself

I don't know what to do. I have a son and I'm pregnant again. I can't carry on like this

Destructive patterns, completely erratic behaviour, I know my relationship, life, mental health isn't good enough for another baby but obsessively tried to get pregnant again and now I am I'm terrified

I shouldn't be in my relationship

I shouldn't be a mum

I'm a fucking mess

OP posts:
xxxllbxxx · 28/12/2021 19:31

Are you ok. What makes you think it's BPD? Talk your not alone .

Silverchamber · 28/12/2021 19:35

I have BPD, diagnosed in my second (obsessively conceived) pregnancy.

Have you reached out for help from professionals? What is going on with you?

I got a diagnosis after splitting with my dc's dad, being arrested, really at rock bottom. I'm through the worst of it now, my daughter is 1 next month and I'm back at work and doing the single parent thing.

It can and will get better xx

PossiblyBPD · 28/12/2021 19:42

I was 21 and met my partner who was significantly older and I should never of got involved but I did, despite never really feeling in love with him I pushed for us to move in, I pushed for us to get engaged

I cried my eyes out trying on wedding dresses because I didn't want to marry him but I still planned and paid for an extravagant wedding

I desperately tried to get pregnant, I completely obsessed over it and went almost insane in the process

Throughout all of this, over a period of years I had such low periods where I knew I didn't want any of this, there hasn't been a single day in the last 6 years I haven't been full of doubt and anxiety about it

I admit it all to my friends and family. I talk about it obsessively. I agonise over leaving. I cancel the wedding. I tell him and everyone it's done

I don't leave. I lie and tell everyone everything is perfect now. I obsess over becoming pregnant again. It takes over my every living thought until I'm pregnant again and now I'm sat here thinking what the fuck am I doing

Why do I keep doing things that I don't want to do. Why do I act so erratically

I'm damaging myself and my child. I'm a compulsive liar

I spend so erratically and am in a disgusting amount of debt. Over 30k, I'm not even 30 yet

I spend up to 10 hours a day on my phone despite the fact I have young kids who need me

The anxieties I have, with my relationship, my kids, my finances, my future. I obsessively google them for up to 10 hours a day. I read every post on every forum about every experience I fear. I completely fill myself with terror

I feel so broken and so damaged and so scared and now I'm pregnant again. All I wanted was to be pregnant again and now I'm pregnant all my other worries are back

I can't go on like this. I'm killing my self slowly. I just want there to be a diagnosis so things can change. I can't become stable. I'm trying and I can't I don't think I can do it on my own

OP posts:
JulesRimetStillGleaming · 28/12/2021 20:13

Doesn't sound like BPD. Do you alternate thinking he is the bees knees and then thinking he is the worst of the worst? This sounds more like you're in a bad relationship and lack the self esteem to leave it.

QuestionNumberOne · 28/12/2021 20:18

@JulesRimetStillGleaming

Doesn't sound like BPD. Do you alternate thinking he is the bees knees and then thinking he is the worst of the worst? This sounds more like you're in a bad relationship and lack the self esteem to leave it.
She’s said very clearly that she doesn’t feel like that about him.

OP you need to discuss this with a GP - you could have BPD or you could need support of a different kind.

It sounds exhausting, do pursue some help, and try to be kind to yourself.

Bramblesr · 28/12/2021 20:23

I was diagnosed with BPD earlier this year. Speak to your GP although be warned it can be quite hard to get accepted by the community mental health team, I had to go private to speak to someone.

Have a look at Kati Morton on YouTube she’s very helpful in talking through BPD and other mental health conditions.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page