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Originally Posted by Matt29
Hi everyone,
I'm bit of in a rough patch.. I was recently diagnosed with a borderline personnality disorder acter years of trying to figure out what the hell is wrong with me.
I'm 25 and I just can't be in a relationship.. I tried and I just can't. I have a good habit of feeling love towards unavailable women but if I ended up socializing with a woman that happens to be single. Everything goes fine until I feel she is interested. From there I just lose it ! I feel so unsafe and I anxious, so much that I can't concentrate on anything else.. I totally freeze trying to deal with what's happening. And if I do open myself to someone, I have vivid nightmares which I can't even deal with when I wake up.
Now I know that there is a possibility to develop post traumatic stress from a BPD. I just needed to talk about it and have an opinion.
I was abandonned by my dad when I was a kid after he and my mom split up. Then I started having nightmares about him leaving and would wake up terrorized and in tears as if I was always living the father/son breakup all over again, I kept having the same nightmares growing up.
When I was a teen, I didn't seem to be able to deal very well with emotions. I was cheated on by my first "serious" girlfriend. And then had another relationship for a year and a half and the end I couldn't deal with what was happening in my life, I was anxious all the time and very depressed, so that girl which I loved very much ended up cheating on me too. That one hit me hard, I fell in a deep depressive state which caused me to be like a zombie...
Anyway! Since that time I've been unable to be in a relationship. I just keep repeating the same patterns of socializing with girls I'm interested in and end up freaking out and running. I've seen a psychologist, a life coach, a sexologist... I'm exhausted. This affects me on every aspect of my life. I crave for love but I can't even feel it when it presents itself. I get attatched to unavailable girls to satisfy my "hunger" and ended up feeling hurt because they are unavailable. Or even spending time with girls I like while being so insecure it is unattractive.. I feel so ruined. Any idea?
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Hello Matt and welcome to PC. Wow, sounds like you are in somewhat of a slump there. It does sound like you fear that abandonment of a person you care for, so you just call it off before it happens. Is that right? Tell me this...what's the worse thing that could happen if you open up and love someone? What's the best thing that could happen if you did the same thing?