Okay so I feel weird even posting this and will feel even worse if no one can relate but Im hoping someone out there can. I was recently diagnosed which has given me a certain sense of belonging. Not that I particularly be diagnosed with a severe mental illness but the fact that there are others out there that think like I do-- so many of them there's a name for it! -- has taken away some of the hopelessness in my head. Some of that alone feeling.

So here's the issue. For the last week or so Ive been OBSESSED with BPD. I've been reading anything I can get my hands on about it- checking this board multiple times a day, googling all sorts of related stuff- basically, it's all I'm thinking about now. Did this happen to anyone else when they were first diagnosed? I mean, learning what you can about what you have seems like one thing... This seems like another thing altogether. I'd like at least 5minutes to go by without thinking about it!!

Thanks for listening to my rant.