I do have Borderline Personality Disorder after all.

[Ana54]

Today I listened to a long list of symptoms that I have. Some people say it's untreatable and are totally unsympathetic. Now I'm really scared of how I'm going to be treated because of this. This is depressing.

 

[Kit]

Were you just diagnosed with this?

 

[Ana54]

No. I just so happened to have been diagnosed with it a year and a half ago by someone who had seen me for 3 minutes and asked questions totally unrelated to BPD. Then that same shrink lied in my records, saying I might have BPD just because I told my bf true things about her. She said I had lied and that I was therefore manipulative and might have BPD because of that.


So now, just today, I tell my new psychologist that my BPD diagnosis is ridiculous. She doesn't seem convinced, but she's a very nice lady and a good psychologist. She does not judge like that or have negative opinions/beliefs about anyone no matter what they have. I went home and told my mother about how she had written down all my 8 diagnoses and my mother started reading about BPD and then read the list of symptoms out loud. I have most of the symptoms. I never thought I would have a personality disorder. I always thought there was a stigma associated with personality disorders, a stigma that is worse than the stigma associated with psychotic disorders.

 

[TV-STAR]

ana i have a diagnosis of BPD too with my autism. I have been told the BPD can become lessened each year. There is treatment available for people with BPD and it can help regulate and retrain your mind. I am going on this therapy its called Dialectical Behaviour Therapy specificically to treat BPD patients. There is a referral for this and have to be willing to take part.

There is unknown cause for BPD but there is scientific evidence that such abuse as a childhood could of developed this. I been abused through childhood.

 

[Kit]

I once thought I had it after seeing Girl Interrupted but BPD and AS share same of the characteristics. That's why some aspies get misdiagnosed with it.

 

[TV-STAR]

Well you can look it my way.

my BPD side affects mainly of impulsivity- excessive spending when low, psychosis , paranoia, selfharm, paranoia that people are out to get me, fear i will be abandoned by people, emotionally unstable very highly sensitive to critism, to arguments so on, raise my standards to high. there are some high risks with me and i do dissociate at times, i constantly fall out wiht people.

and i look at my autism this way:

I struggle to communicate across to people how i am feeling by talking than to writing, i find it hard to understand emotions but understand happy,sad, depressed.

I struggle to talk in groups
I find it hard to understand expressions
Have obsessions

There is many more. I could list, but have forgotten the rest of it.

 

[Ruby_Aspergic]

Ooh, I have a friend that did DBT for a long time. I think she liked it.

 

[Ana54]

Good. If the patients like it it's a good sign. I liked CBT. I should find out if DBT is familiar. I was scared to death that therapists would hate on me because I'm such a hateful hated person.


I always said I didn't have it because one quack said I had it because I was a manipulative liar, when I wasn't and am not, and she said that's why I have BPD, but that's not true, but now I know lying and manipulation are not even symptoms of BPD.

 

[TV-STAR]

Good. If the patients like it it's a good sign. I liked CBT. I should find out if DBT is familiar. I was scared to death that therapists would hate on me because I'm such a hateful hated person.


I always said I didn't have it because one quack said I had it because I was a manipulative liar, when I wasn't and am not, and she said that's why I have BPD, but that's not true, but now I know lying and manipulation are not even symptoms of BPD.

dbt is similar to CBT but u have to do this in groups as well as 121 http://bpdworld.org/leaflets-a-downloads