These are all so great! This is fantastic therapy for all of us. Don't you all feel incredibly normal all of a sudden?

Doomsday stuff seems to be a common theme among most of us. Not surprising at all though given the nature of BPD. All it takes is the wrong news story at the wrong time and we're off to the races. I just remembered this happening to me more recently. I read something about the dozen or so times the US and Russia almost destroyed the world by accident during the Cold War. What I didn't realize, until a few days later, was I had just started going hypomanic that morning (how's that for timing?). When it dawned on me later that I live about 45 minutes east of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, I starting freaking out. I had a nice little plan going where I was going to buy some property about 25 miles east of my house, just inside the Smoky Mountains, where we could 'bug out' at a moment's notice. The mountains would shield us from a nuclear blast, at least somewhat, and we could probably get there within an hour even if traffic was bad. Thankfully this plan fizzled out like all the others. I really try to think of every scenario and cover all of the bases which always leads to very quick burnout for me. I don't ever want to be caught "with my pants down" as they say, but you just cannot prepare for every possible situation. My obsessive nature does not want to accept this reality though. I'd hate to see what plan I'd come up with if I got like this during an extended hypo phase. Geez. Living 30 minutes from Washington D.C. for 30 years didn't do me a lot of good in this department.


And I haven't even really experienced a societal breakdown like Shazerac described. This was my nightmare scenario living in Northern Virginia. Traffic was already horrendous during normal times. Throw in a natural or man-made disaster and there's no getting out of the D.C. area, forget it. It's shelter-in-place or nothing. No wonder I got so damn paranoid about this stuff.