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Originally Posted by SkyscraperMeow
Maybe you will be one day be ready to be a therapist, when your medications are stable and you no longer meet the BPD criteria. But frankly, I think trying to be a practicing therapist in two years while actively BPD is just... put it this way, I don't think the decision to take your money and allow you into the course was ethical.
But the position of a professional therapist does not fit any of those criteria.
I don't think you're in any shape to be a therapist, and frankly, I don't think they're going to let you be one in your current state either.
If this is really your dream, you need to take several steps back and look at what you need to do to get yourself recovered from the disorder.
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Technically I don't meet criteria anymore, but I still view myself as having it. Generally speaking, I don't take medications outside of xanax (very very very rarely) and vyvanse to increase my focus- On other meds like mood stabilizers and anti psychotics and the like, I find myself becoming more emotionally reactive and out of control under the influence of that medication than I would be off of medication.
I only took it the three weeks I was in the DBT program, it caused problems academically so I stopped it.
I've been very honest with the two heads of my program about my BPD and the things I am struggling with, and tried to drop out last semester and they encouraged me to stay.
I recognize my obstacles and have repeated them to admin more than once, and they think
(or maybe thought past tense) that I'd be able to do it in the time I have left.
Regardless if I wind up practicing as a therapist in the next 24 months, I'd still like to get my degree. There are other things I can do with it that can get me off of disability.