Posted by madison88 on September 24, 2002, at 19:29:30
My therapist, who I am planning on replacing, is finally wising up to the fact that I most definitely qualify for borderline personality disorder. i have known I probably am for the past few months, and i have been careful to keep certain details out of the conversation. i am try to prepare myself for it, but i have been so upset the last couple days about it i haven't slept or eaten and have been dissociating like mad and have been doing a lot of things i would rather not mention.
some part of me must want her to figure it out b/c today i really shocked her and told her some of it. she proceded to go through the list as dictated in the DSM, asking me questions about symptoms straight from that damn book.
I can't handle this diagnosis. I am not sure it fits with OCD anyway, which I have already been diagnosed with by a former therapist. I consider the BPD the worst there is, besides schizophrena. I feel like I will be doomed the rest of my life if this happens. Any encouragement would be greatly appreciated. Is BPD as hard to treat as I think it is? Do therapists treat you differently w/ the diagnosis?
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