Does anyone here have it or struggle with it??
I’ve been struggling with it and I don’t know what to do. I’m in therapy but I feel like I need more support.
Does anyone know any good forums or anything for it??
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I dont realy understand if i have it or if my symptoms are related more towards autism and sza but i know DBT can be super helpful. I have no idea about support forums though.
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Honestly BPD overlaps with a bunch of stuff. A lot of the symptoms I have can be explained by my SZA or autism or other stuff too. but I can’t deny the diagnosis fits me pretty spot on and the docs I’ve seen agree so I just roll with it.
I’ve done a some DBT and I want to do more but unfortunately I haven’t had the opportunity to continue it for a while. It definitely helped me become more aware of the things I was doing but I definitely want to improve upon that more
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You can find some DBT stuff online. It definitely helped me. Mindfulness was the most helpful by far
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I dont know if you can talk about other forum’s but hear it goes. Mental health forum has a BPD section which might be helpful to you. BPD is hard to deal with you must be strong.
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Hey, noise, i was once diagnosed as a bpd too in fact. The pdoc was even swearing, that i am not a sz, but borderline… But idk, my paranoia is way too tough.
I sympathize to you, maybe i really do have bpd traits as well… But i aim the virtues now and the love, this changed my bitterness etc.
Am still struggling though, you saw my post about the love, its mainly you whove answered it, maybe its a bpd trait this lol yeap heh…
If its this what we have as well, i find it very painful tbh, ive isolated around that for 20 years, it screwed up my life tbh and i ended up quite alone, cause we are hard to deal with… But at least, its something on which you can work and its beatable too…
I need an ap though for my fears and the anger, but the meds never made me real healthy, its up to some other efforts now…
You can try the therapy and just try to develop yourself too, thats what i do. I need now more the social exposure more now in order to get better, but i can feel guilt even in a simple conversation with a friend…
Dont worry much though, you are not alone!!!
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I might have it.
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Of course. it is possible to have schizophrenia and a personality disorder.
I have a gal with personality disorder who is large in my life. It is tempting to try to lecture her because so many of her problems are of her own making. Well, she has a lot of volunteers to help her see what is wrong with her. What she actually needs most from me is a hug rather than a lecture.
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I’ve found DBT to be very helpful, especially the mindfulness skills. I have schizoaffective plus BPD, mostly cuz I sometimes self harm. Clozapine has helped with that…
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Do you have any sources that worked for you??
I will check it out thank you
For me it just makes everything feel so intense. It’s so easy to hurt me a wrong word or a slightly annoyed tone can send me spiraling down. And it hurts so badly.
I love with my whole heart and yet I never feel like others care about me at all or if they do it never feels like enough. On the otherside of the coin I can be completely heartless and lose all empathy at times.
I’m constantly scared that the people I care about hate me and are going to leave me. And the SZA sometimes adds some extra delusion to that. (Mainly that my friends want to hurt me/plot against me)
Everything either feels extremely temporary or fake, like friendships always come with a sad thought of this won’t last.
And on the otherside everything can feel so permanent, like if I have an argument I can’t believe that there is anything past that they just hate me now.
I hate how contradictory this condition is. Nothing is consistent it’s always black or white with very little in between.
I’m trying so hard to improve but it’s such a slow moving and arduous process. And I have improved a lot through the years so I have a little bit of hope at least. But it’s so exhausting and I won’t lie there’s part of me that just wants to quit trying.
Honestly I know I cause a lot of my own problems. But in the moment it’s so easy to be blind to them. I’ve gotten a lot better about it but some things still slip through my defenses.
That being said there are also a lot of problems out of my control
everything is a lot right now
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The psychiatrist diagnosed me with Borderline Personality Disorder, but my therapist disagreed pretty vehemently, so I don’t even know. I just say I have schizophrenia with bpd traits. What helped me is religion and faith, but that will definitely not be advantageous for everyone, particularly in the schizophrenic community; so I understand that. However, most people I’ve talked to have said DBT helps a lot. I tried looking for some Borderline forums myself, but to essentially no avail.
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I was diagnosed with BPD when i was 25 or so, it was a whirlwind of hospital stays, suicide attempts, hallucinations, and diagnoses. I did DBT and read a lot of books on BPD and that helped me a lot. My abandonment issues and self harming have gotten much better, i havent self harmed in over 5 years (im 38 now). I dont feel as out of control as i did in my late 20s and early 30s. I definitely recommend DBT, eapeciallu mindfulness.
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