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Originally Posted by Wingnut13
Well I told my family and now I am wishing I didn't. Their response drove me to drink and to start burning again. So mad at myself for not listening to the advice people on here gave me. Even my T told me to seriously think about it. But I really thought I would be validated by them and they would understand. But that did not happen. They actually looked at me and said "I don't see it". So I gave them some papers I printed out about bpd. They read them and said "nope,you don't have that,you're just a little depressed". I was/am crushed. So now my secret is out and I still feel I am alone. It was so devastating I dreamed that I took a bunch of pills and went to their house to end it.
Glad I get to see my T later today.
Anyone who is thinking about telling family members about having bpd please please please think twice about doing so. And then don't do it.
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I will tell you this and you can possibly look at it as a consolation, I don't know. You and I remember things; we can't let things so, and we live in the past. Others do not. In several weeks, a month, your family is not likely to remember that you even told them. That is hard as well, but they cannot look down upon something they don't remember. Work on yourself and to hell with your family and anyone else who refuses to support you or invalidates you. Work on yourself; that's all that really matters.