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Borderline Personality Disorder
This is the Borderline Personality Disorder Group.

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Offline Why So Dark?
Subject: Who Knows What It Is?
Date: Feb 05, 2009 21:14
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After counselling, meds and all those tests, it has been decided I have Major Depression and BPD. Not BD 2. Which is really weird. I am more down than normal feeling. And yes some of the aspects fit. However does this happen to you:

Excited/happy for no reason, may last half an hour, then deflated, then racing thoughts, then sad and irritable, then angry, then empty and finally, its all ok, Im feeling fine there is nothing wrong with me.

All of that happens quickly for me but atleast 3+ times a week. Im ok with no BD, however I dont think BPD covers these irratic rash behaviours and feelings. Or am I wrong? Anyone similar to this??????

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Date: Nov 15, 2008 11:52
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Hey, this is my first time posting anything on this site, ever, so I hope I'm doing it right!

 

My current problem is that out of nowhere I start hating individual people in my life; friends, family, and strangers alike.  Typically, they have done nothing wrong, but when I look at him/her or hear him/her speak, I get extremely irritated.  I was to punch them in the face and slam their head against a wall.  Consequently, this is putting a strain on almost all of my relationships.  I’ve had to isolate myself so I’m not mean or rude to people I do truly care about.  I’m not really sure what to do because I can totally rationalize my rage, and I’m not sure if that’s the truth, or the borderline.  I really am a kind person, so it’s hard having these emotions.  And the fact that I care not about what’s happening, but that I don’t care about what’s happening, is upsetting.  I know about cognitive distortions and all that, but I’m having so much difficulty giving in when I think I’m 100% right.  Has anyone ever had a similar problem, or even intensely hated just one person?  Like I said, I’m a good person, so this issue is kind of embarrassing for me.  If anyone has any suggestions how I can get over myself, please let me know!

 

Thanks so much!!!

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Offline 101scare
Subject: Depression and BPD
Date: Sep 27, 2008 18:23
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HEy I totallly get the only focusing on the BPD... its such a in ya face things for clinicians that the diagnosis means they put us in the too hard basket and don't even want to scratch the surface of our exterior to deal with any other issues because they don't want to clean up the mess!!!
It took me 11 years for a new doc to finally look back through my files and see a very clear pattern of everytime my BPD symptoms - selfharm, OD attempts, hospitatlisation occurred there was a very evident depression that often got overlooked. It worked out that we started really looking at how to keep the depression at bay to therefore keep the BPD at bay.
I did DBT for the BPD which helped heaps and generally when depression wasn't around to a clinical extent I could aply the skills pretty well, whe depression reared its ugly head all my energy was zapped which meant I could not as readilly put skills into place to counter the BPD stuff and so therefore became so much more vulnerable.

IT was amazingly reassuring to have this identified cause it meant I finally got validated for how hard things were and that it wasn't me just being a shit choosing not to apply my skills but was that I physically couldn't cause the depression needed addressing.

THis isn't to say that life is sweet and that other clinicians just don't jump on the Oh its BPD band wagon but having a couple of clinicians who do get it means a lot.
I say get a good doc it makes a world of difference and really be honest about the degree of depression  you feel even dysthmia a lower grade depression has a huge impact on symptoms of BPD rearing.

This is first time writting on this group, its always nict to read others writthing and feel like they are speaking your own thoughts. We maybe so different but its amazing the similarities!!

Keep in the game its the only way your going to win...
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Offline imonut
Subject: duel dx
Date: Sep 16, 2008 13:41
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is there anyone else in the uk who battles once they have the bpd "label" to be accepted as having any other dx. i also suffer from clinical depression and ptsd but they never get treated or documented or recognised because as far as everyone in this country is concerned im just a bpd trouble maker. none of my other problems are helped seesh i may aswell change my name to bpd

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Offline jam
Subject: Hi Trixxi
Date: Apr 24, 2008 02:51
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Welcome to the group too.
Thank you for your post - I'm glad you found it useful.
Another way of looking at bpd, and sense of self, is to look at the analogy of rain eroding a rock.  Over time, and with stress and negative events, we too can be worn down.
This analogy has helped me to accept that I'm not a mess because I'm a bad or weak person or that where I'm at is the result of things that happened to me (liked being sectioned under the mental health act and being threatened with ect, etc).
Life happens, and the reality is that if we don't have positive events to balance out the negative we do become tired and worn down.
I hope you can take this analogy and use it somehow to help gain insight into your own situation.
I don't know about you but I love teaching stories, metaphors, analogies, etc.

Thanks again for your post -it's helped me a lot when before I was feeling so desperate and overwhelmed.  My T is still working hard to help me plug my bucket so I can experience more positives without them flowing straight through.
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