Current Events > Does anyone on CE have Borderline Personality Disorder?

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Just curious. What symptoms did/do you have and how does it affect your life?
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I was diagnosed 13 years ago and it has deeply affected my life. Due to my BPD I often make efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment, such as rapidly initiating intimate relationships or cutting off communication with someone in anticipation of being abandoned. I have intense and unstable relationships with my family, friends, and loved ones, often swinging from extreme closeness and love to extreme dislike or anger. I've engaged in impulsive and often dangerous behaviors, such as spending sprees, unsafe sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, and binge eating. Not to mention plenty of self-harming behavior, such as cutting, recurring thoughts of suicidal behavior, intense and highly changeable moods, with each episode lasting from a few hours to a few days, and chronic feelings of emptiness. Nowadays I think it isn't as bad as it used to be, but it's still a constant uphill battle.
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HokagoTeaTime posted...

I was diagnosed 13 years ago and it has deeply affected my life. Due to my BPD I often make efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment, such as rapidly initiating intimate relationships or cutting off communication with someone in anticipation of being abandoned. I have intense and unstable relationships with my family, friends, and loved ones, often swinging from extreme closeness and love to extreme dislike or anger. I've engaged in impulsive and often dangerous behaviors, such as spending sprees, unsafe sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, and binge eating. Not to mention plenty of self-harming behavior, such as cutting, recurring thoughts of suicidal behavior, intense and highly changeable moods, with each episode lasting from a few hours to a few days, and chronic feelings of emptiness. Nowadays I think it isn't as bad as it used to be, but it's still a constant uphill battle.

that sounds legitimately awful and I feel sorry for you
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Yeah that does sound awful but thinking about it I experience several of those regularly

I think I need to go talk to a psychologist soon, I'm not certain I have BPD but I don't think my old diagnosis of depression and general anxiety is completely accurate
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HokagoTeaTime posted...

I was diagnosed 13 years ago and it has deeply affected my life. Due to my BPD I often make efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment, such as rapidly initiating intimate relationships or cutting off communication with someone in anticipation of being abandoned. I have intense and unstable relationships with my family, friends, and loved ones, often swinging from extreme closeness and love to extreme dislike or anger. I've engaged in impulsive and often dangerous behaviors, such as spending sprees, unsafe sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, and binge eating. Not to mention plenty of self-harming behavior, such as cutting, recurring thoughts of suicidal behavior, intense and highly changeable moods, with each episode lasting from a few hours to a few days, and chronic feelings of emptiness. Nowadays I think it isn't as bad as it used to be, but it's still a constant uphill battle.

Sounds about right.

Hairistotle posted...

goggalor did. bpd sufferers are fundamentally broken people and they can experience no real joy. they only ruin the lives of those around them

Lol also accurate.

DarthAragorn posted...

Yeah that does sound awful but thinking about it I experience several of those regularly

I think I need to go talk to a psychologist soon, I'm not certain I have BPD but I don't think my old diagnosis of depression and general anxiety is completely accurate

You dont come off as someone with BPD. Bipolar is a common misdiagnosis fwiw.
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I don't know how you could tell from just what I've posted here
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I don't but I've dated 2 borderlines
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DarthAragorn posted...

I don't know how you could tell from just what I've posted here

Compare your posts to goggalors plus consider its not exactly a common mental health condition.
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I've never been official diagnosed, but my social worker seems to think I have it.

I'm not so sure myself. I pretty much feel no joy, and I wouldn't describe my "episodes" as mood swings but total personality changes.

But she's just a dumb social worker so I don't put too much stock into it.
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I had an ex who was diagnosed with it

ghostmess posted...

I had an ex who was diagnosed with it

Would you say she's a crazy ex girlfriend

EdgeMaster posted...

DarthAragorn posted...

I don't know how you could tell from just what I've posted here

Compare your posts to goggalors plus consider its not exactly a common mental health condition.

I mean that doesn't mean that much
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I need to make an appointment with a psychiatrist soon to ask them about this shit

I don't know if I have it but some of the symptoms are way too relatable for me right now
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HokagoTeaTime posted...

I was diagnosed 13 years ago and it has deeply affected my life. Due to my BPD I often make efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment, such as rapidly initiating intimate relationships or cutting off communication with someone in anticipation of being abandoned. I have intense and unstable relationships with my family, friends, and loved ones, often swinging from extreme closeness and love to extreme dislike or anger.I've engaged in impulsive and often dangerous behaviors, such as spending sprees, unsafe sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, and binge eating. Not to mention plenty of self-harming behavior, such as cutting, recurring thoughts of suicidal behavior, intense and highly changeable moods, with each episode lasting from a few hours to a few days, and chronic feelings of emptiness.Nowadays I think it isn't as bad as it used to be, but it's still a constant uphill battle.

That sounds just like me :(

What do you do to cope?
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