Thank you for your response.

How frequent are the occasional therapy sessions?

They have been no more than once a month, if even that. It seems when she goes to make an appointment, she can't get in to see her psychiatrist till weeks in advance. I think part of it, too, is her lack of motivation to try to see someone more frequently and distrust in seeing anyone else. I can relate to that, actually. For a long time, I tried different therapists myself and none of them were helpful, so I gave up trying for a while.

What kind of group therapy is it?

I have no idea. I don't think she's even tried it. She doesn't like the idea of talking about all her private issues in a group setting and doesn't think it would help anyway. What she really wants is something like hypno therapy or electro-shock therapy because she is at constant war with her own mind.


do you know what has prompted this crisis / major stress reaction? did something happen in group therapy?

Her current crisis is due to an accumulation of things, including never having gotten over things that happened to her in her childhood. And lately, it seems like no matter how hard she tries to move forward in a positive way, things keep blowing up in her face. And a large part of it is that she doesn't deal with things well... even the smallest setbacks can upset her greatly (which is a characteristic of bpd, I believe). Much of her current issues can be helped to some degree by talking to a good therapist, I'm sure, but there is so much constantly going on in her mind that she can't control, so I'm afraid that kind of therapy won't likely give her as much help as she needs.