I was recently diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder in addition to my Bipolar diagnosis. I am overwhelmed. My life is in a shambles, I have managed to almost push my 21 year old daughter, my best friend of 30 years away and my family away. I think about suicide all of the time. It just seems like the easy way out. A few weeks ago I had to go into inpatient because I wanted to swallow a bottle of pills.

Does anyone else have a dual diagnosis? If so, how are you coping. I switched my pdoc and my therapist in the hopes that I will receive more intensive treatment. I am also going to start attending group therapy once a week. I take my meds as directed... but I am wondering if anyone has any tips to get through this.

From what I hear, BPD takes a lot of effort to overcome and there are no meds to help. Does anyone else have this?

thanks.