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I Have Borderline Personality Disorder

I feel like I'm not allowed here. I'm not official diagnosed, but before you comment "go to a doctor," please understand that's really hard for me to do right now. But, BPD it seems like the missing piece or link. Even the two friends I have say it's fits me.

I don't know what's wrong with me, but since I discovered bpd it just matches. Unstable relationships, extreme fear of abandonment, mostly caused by my narc dad that would threaten to leave me or send me away and a precious friend I had.

When it comes to anger I'm the hulk. Impulses drive it further and in the end I do or say something I regret.

Maybe I am a piece of sh*t, I don't mean to hurt people but they're always getting burned one way or another. One of my friend's wants to die and yet I can't let him, he's been emotionally abusive lately too, but I can't let another person leave me. I can't help it I get really scared and depressed about people just leaving. Even if it's benefital for me.

I don't have any sense of myself and lack direction.

I know this amounts to nothing but I've taken online tests -- screening ones with the official DMSV or whatever, I've scored highly likely nearly every time.

You know the symptoms and i can't just list and check mark them I have no proof, no one is going to believe this post.

My friend yesterday said he didn't need me and said he was going to leave so I tried everything to make him stay even accepted all the things he was calling me "liar" "btch" andso forth.

He wasn't caring about me he he shouted he didn't care, which along with someone saying they're leaving are trigger words for me so I panicked got really really depressed and cut myself.

I know I have depersonalization/realization issues.

I hea- read people say bpd is hell on earth you hate yourself you want to die and so on, but I don't feel that way all the time so maybe I don't belong here maybe I'm just carting the traits I don't know anymore.. i just don't feel like I belong anywhere else and i don't know I have alexithymia i can't tell anything about my emotions or feelings let alone describe them.
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firefall · 61-69, M
BPD is one of those things that a lot of ppl gravitate to as a diagnosis, which is why, I think, it's treated with great suspicion when you self-diagnose.

OTOH, you're describing an awful lot of the normal parameters for BPD, so it seems very likely that you're correct. Have you/can you see a therapist to get a more formal diagnosis, and a course of treatment? (Pills dont work for everyone, by any means, but are well worth trying as a first step, because if they do work, they feel like utter magic).
Cannelle · 26-30, F
@firefall I can't really get any professional help, because my mom doesn't believe I have it (she believes most things I "have" are in my head) and I don't have a job (so no money) and can't drive.
firefall · 61-69, M
@Cannelle Ugh, that's pretty grim, sorry. Is there any affliction she would believe you have?

(and LOL @ those things you have being in your head. Sure, of course they are - I know she thinks thats dismissive, but isn't every mental issue 'in your head'. )
Cannelle · 26-30, F
@firefall the only thing my mom knows is that I cut myself once and I have pretty bad anger issues. I'm more furitive than I should be probably.
firefall · 61-69, M
@Cannelle kind impossible not to be furtive, given your givens. Maybe ask her to get you help for the anger issues, then pull the bait&switch once you're alone with a therapist?
Cannelle · 26-30, F
That's a clever plan, I'll see what I can do. I am also very nervous about my anger actually, because I'll be moving in with my sister later this year and we don't always get along, most siblings don't, but most siblings also don't nearly kill their sibling.@firefall
firefall · 61-69, M
@Cannelle Ah, so you can ask for that, for real, as part of the whole. Good luck with it, truly.
Cannelle · 26-30, F
Thank you. @firefall