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[Todd]

I know I have been AWOL for quite a while, I've been going through a lot of mental crap as of late. I went through 3 months of therapy 5 times a week, now I see a counselor every other week. I saw the Psychiatrist today and finally got a true diagnosis. I was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. I'm glad to have an actual diagnosis, but it really sucks because BPD is not treatable with medication. I guess I just have to fight through it alone idk.

[Cyber]

BPD is a tough diagnosis but you are NOT alone. You can manage some of the symptoms with medications but it's not "curable" unfortunately.

You might have the makings for a blog about your experiences and maybe some readers out there who felt that THEY were alone will find that they aren't alone anymore, either.

[Todd]

BPD is a tough diagnosis but you are NOT alone. You can manage some of the symptoms with medications but it's not "curable" unfortunately.

You might have the makings for a blog about your experiences and maybe some readers out there who felt that THEY were alone will find that they aren't alone anymore, either.

I didn't mean alone as in people, I meant without meds. I'm on 13 pills a day including mood stabilizers and anti depressants and they don't touch it. I still have symptoms daily. I'm trying to find someone close who does DBT therapy since that seems to be the only conventional treatment.

[evilavatar]

BDP is better treated with cognitive therapy and as I would tell anyone.  It takes time to get better.  Therapy is and will be a frustrating thing for almost everyone at one point in the therapy or another.  We've all kind of grown in an age where rather than really fixing an issue we throw pills at it.  "Here take this and this and this and feel better"- it;s not entirely true or realistic to think that medicines should work that way.  My suggestion is to work through what you can, keep an open mind, and roll with the punches.  If you need more encouragement look up positive psychology and martin seligman.  For far to long the field of psychology has only looked at fixing someone who is "broke" or has some abnormal thinking pattern.  Positive psychologists look at the parts of the psyche that make people feel better than average and there is quite a bit to be learned in that area.  There are also several studies that present data that you can use to help improve your daily life.   Most of all, take things one day and step at a time.  A bad day is a bad day, unless you fixate on it and let it make your bad day into a bad week or worse.

[Todd]

BDP is better treated with cognitive therapy and as I would tell anyone.  It takes time to get better.  Therapy is and will be a frustrating thing for almost everyone at one point in the therapy or another.  We've all kind of grown in an age where rather than really fixing an issue we throw pills at it.  "Here take this and this and this and feel better"- it;s not entirely true or realistic to think that medicines should work that way.  My suggestion is to work through what you can, keep an open mind, and roll with the punches.  If you need more encouragement look up positive psychology and martin seligman.  For far to long the field of psychology has only looked at fixing someone who is "broke" or has some abnormal thinking pattern.  Positive psychologists look at the parts of the psyche that make people feel better than average and there is quite a bit to be learned in that area.  There are also several studies that present data that you can use to help improve your daily life.   Most of all, take things one day and step at a time.  A bad day is a bad day, unless you fixate on it and let it make your bad day into a bad week or worse.

Oh yeah I'm researching all I can about it. What makes it so hard though is the symptoms switch so rapidly that its hard to keep up with it. And I have bad day cycles, they usually last a few days but can last up to a few weeks. I'm looking into DBT therapy, I just have to find someone in my area trained in it.

[Ichabod]

Oh yeah I'm researching all I can about it. What makes it so hard though is the symptoms switch so rapidly that its hard to keep up with it.

I understand what you are saying. Although i cannot say that my own symptoms switch rapidly they are consistent none the less, wich leads me to much unwanted quite frowrad and enduring periods of wobble.

And I have bad day cycles, they usually last a few days but can last up to a few weeks. I'm looking into DBT therapy, I just have to find someone in my area trained in it.

I have been going to therapy for a over a year without much progress, actually without any progress at all. The entire ordeal was, as far as i perceive it, a colossal waste of time. I have not been diagnosed with anything while contemporaneously taking antidepressants which have not been useful so far. I was only told that i am depressed.
I hope that you manage to subsist with all of the problems that tantalize you.

I am new here, even though i have been a lurker for a while, but i just had to alleviate myself. I hope you don't mind.