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Originally Posted by Darkangelmosher
Thanks for the replies...Im in the UK in Lancashire and basically you tell your gp your symptoms which they send through to the mental health team. They then give you a call and tell you where/who they think you should see. Last time it was CBT, the guy messed my appointment up and i got thrown off the mental health teams list. Its taken me over a year just to get referred back to them.
I saw my psychiatrist about 4 times when i was 13 and tbh i dont know why i didnt carry on going...think i couldnt get there and my mum couldnt/wouldnt take me. I think im just going to have to demand to see someone professional this has been going on since 13, my mum even said she thought i had bipolar.
My symptoms are depression, sucicidal thoughts, intense relationships which i find hard to maintain, gambling, spending too much, anger, over emotional, mood swings, i dont know who i am (no ambition because i feel lost and like i dont belong) and my main problem fear of being alone...if i feel i will lose someone i do silly things like lock them in the house...i scare myself.
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If you get nowhere with your CMHT (which seems likely unfortunately) i would contact your local community personality disorder service and see if they can advise you as to what to do. To be honest your symptoms sound textbook borderline but only a specialist will be able to tell you for sure. There is no medicine for BPD (well, none that has been shown to work all that well), most eventually get put onto a dialectical behavioural therapy programme. Again these are exceptionally difficult to get onto in my experience but if you are diagnosed as being borderline this is really the only thing that has been shown to work (along with MBT, but there are few treatment programmes who use this method). I wish you all the best and all i can really say is don't give up - check out this site too, our DBT group uses this website for information all the time; dbtselfhelp.com