Thanks for this description. I've
known that I had BPD issues since 2006.
I'm finally gaining the confidence to tell people what treatment works for me and what doesn't rather than continuing to be fobbed off with anti-depressants by my GP.
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is there anything worse than being diagnosed with BPD and then having your trust betrayed and abandoned by the therapist who was supposed to be there for you? who admits to crossing boundaries? I have never felt so used, and it is devastating.
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I too feel used by my therapist. I was never diagnosed with BPD. I sought therapy privately and my therapist seemed to use our individual therapy to sell me a group therapy course that she ran. So I ended up in group therapy with other men who had very superficially similar sex/relationship issues to me (and the similarities were as superficial as they come) but crucially no BPD traits. The results was me feeling like an outsider and feeling frustrated at myself that the treatment was not working for me.
It's taken me months to get over it. I'm finally leaving the resentments behind and gaining the confidence to say what's right for me.
I wish you the very best in moving on from your bad experience too, rubymoon. We go into therapy in a vulnerable state and we should be able to expect to be treated sensitively and with respect. It hurts so much when that doesn't happen but I hope that you too can come out the other side feeling stronger.
Best wishes.