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

Thursday 8 September 2011

Ignorance

I wanted to share something that happened to me this week. I had a mini difference of opinion with someone who got really mad, and proceeded to say in so many words that my opinions did not count and that i did not make any sense at all because i have bpd. This had never happened to me before, it occured to me perhaps this happens to others with bpd. I have to say 7 or 8 months ago, that would have set me off to either a panic attack, major anxiety, crying and believing what the person was saying. I would have begged for forgiveness and ignored my own beliefs or opinions just to please the person. But i didnt i politely said it was too bad he saw it that way and said my goodbyes.
Those are the moments i realize that therapy is starting to work in certain ways. Never change your beliefs or opinions to please someone. Be true to yourself. It gets easier and easier :o)
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