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Originally Posted by technigal
Having the diagnosis does not change who you are. You are the same person you were before the diagnosis but now you know the things that cause issues in your life. Your therapist sounds like she really wants to help you and that is half the battle - finding someone who is supportive and can help you through the tough times. 
What I have started to do (and it seems to help me) is when I am reading stuff on BPD I write down how it affects my life. So symptom 1, applies in xyz, symptom 2, does not apply etc. All the books I have been reading put everything in different order so I write both the symptom and the things that I notice in myself and the title of the book. Right now my brain is in a fog and so if I don't write it down I will forget immediately.
And don't feel nervous, we are here to be supportive. |
Thank you so much! Yes I've actually been hungrily reading all of the information I can on BPD. Before I had an actual diagnosis I didn't really want to read too much because I thought "well what's the point you don't even know if you're bpd so stop reading into it". But now the more I read it's like "Oh my god..this explains so much" Like the
Psychotic-like Perpetual Distortions (Lapses in Reality Testing). I never really read much into it and now I am and it makes so much sense. I have a lot of days or moments where I think I'm not real or I'm dead or asleep and not really here. I also have this constant paranoid delusions that every one is always staring at me and noticing all my flaws and thinking I'm awful.
I always just thought they were my little quirks..
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Allie
Diagnosed: Generalized Anxiety Disorder & Obsessive Compulsive Disoder. Previous: Borderline Personality Disorder.
I no longer qualify for a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder, but there will always be my borderline traits that I struggle with especially during times of great stress.
I've been working passionately as a therapist since December 2016
