Bordeline Personality Disorder

I am doing this blog in the hopes of helping people with "BPD" and to help family and friends and those who do not have BPD to perhaps understand us better. Also to learn from others at the same time. I am 36 years old and I was diagnosed with BPD about 2 years ago. I am fortunate enough to be in a fantastic treatment center for 2 years and i know that depending on where people live, many places do not have treatment at all. I will be sharing VERY PERSONAL information because i think it is important people understand and in the hopes that my story can help someone who has felt the same or went through similar experiences, hopefully they can relate. I would like to share experiences and things I have learned in therapy and hear people's stories and experiences. Please do not self diagnose yourself if you find you have many of the symptoms of Borderline personality disorder. I also am not a doctor or therapist so everything I post is from my own experiences and what I have learned so far about BPD. Everyone is welcome to share their stories, offer tips and such but if anyone is disrespectful I will remove your posts. I hope this will be a way to inform and help people including myself. Thank you

Wednesday 31 August 2011

OH i wanted to add, I and most bpd people are extremely sensitive and sometimes on certain days, a friend or someone will say a comment that no one would ever think anything of....but i on some days will receive a text, a phone call or someone will say something, or someone will not reply to a text or an email..ect and if its a bad day, i can spend hours thinking i must have done something wrong, this person must not like me ect ect ect....i live in my head and am always always analysing everything to death. And 99% of the time i am of course wrong, but this may explain to people that we can be sooooooo sensitive sometimes a simple thing like not returning a phone call, a text, an email...that can set us off to think we are a bad person or we did something wrong and on and on and on....from my experience and from hearing other people talk in my group sessions, most of us are like that. And then we overreact and the poor person at the other end whom did absolutly nothing wrong is at a lost. It is never with bad intentions, sometimes we just need a small explanation or reassurance and poof we are fine...a bit of patience with us goes a very long way :o)

Video to give an idea of what BPD feels like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt9SOvILMI8