Borderline Personality Support Group

If you were describing Borderline to someone, how would YOU describe it?

I have been DX with being Borderline but I just can`t see how I fit the criteria.

I am also DX Bipolar 2 which seems to overlap symptoms with Borderline.

My life is just up and down , happy, sad , sad sad, happy, level, sad, sad, happy, level.

In my heart I believe I have situational depression which would be the reason for the sad of course and the happy comes from just having some hope about the situation.

I can`t get out of this situation and I have ben in it for 5 years. I also know in my hear tthat I am very sensitive to other people who are hurting, I tend to project how I would feel in their shoes and at times I react so strongly to the feelings that it throws me into a depression.

For instance, my brother went thru a divorce 2 yrs ago, his kids moved away and after 20 yrs he was living in the home that he and his wife built together. He was sad of course and I became so sad for him, thinking I could imagine his feelings and I ended in bed for 4 days sobbing for him for his pain, for his loss. I did not even know if his pain was as painful as I was imaging???? That was the only time my therapist wanted me to go inpatient.

2 yrs divorced and if I let my mind wander back there I can lose it emotionally again. I have a friend who is lonely and at times I start thinking how lonely I am and if he is feeling the same degree then I start sobbing about him.

I can`t take being so emotioanly about others. Yes I want empathy but I don`t want to spend days in bed for what I think is going thru theirminds.

Ok, I believe I got onto 2 subjects here.

Jump in and reply if you have anything to say. Thanks, Jen

Jen, That thin-skinned, almost feeling what others feel is very much like me and I have bpd for sure . Can you ask whoever diagnosed you to go through the criteria and poitn out which ones apply to you? The 'situational depression' sounds very bpd to me also. We are extraordinarily sensitive when it comes to interpersonal interactions and other environmental factors.

My therapist would describe what you feel for others to be a hypersensitivity to what those around you are feeling. We feel things 10x stronger than most people. There is also impulsive reactions, black and white thinking, and being unsure of a lot of things. A certain look or action from someone can change a mood, and it can just as easily change right back to where it started. I also think it would be good for you to talk to the person who diagnosed you, and have them explain how you fit into the criteria so you can understand how you personally fit into the diagnosis.

Post edited by: peaches261, at: 06/27/2012 08:52 AM

I can't say that I get emotionally over sensitive to other peoples hurt or pain, but I am very sensitive to how people treat me and view the world as a dangerous place. I tend to have black and white thinking and have had situational depression aswell as suffer from Cyclothymia.

Thanks for the replies, I had an appt. today with a new therapist, it went well.

I lost my therapist of 3 1/2 years last July to budget cuts.

So since then I saw 1 therapist and then she left, I saw her 1 time. Then I say another 2 visits, she left , that was in DEC. SO hopefully this new therapist will stay.

Thanks again for the replies!!!

Zippy2011, could you explain your situational depression to me? PM is fine if you want to keep it private.

What makes it situational depression and not depression?

Peaches, your reply describes me .

Honeybee,

"Regular" depression is more or less constant and usually requires medication. Situational depression eases with positive experiences, such as good social interactions. Likewise, it gets worse with negative experiences. I believe the latter is related less to biology.

Post edited by: petirrojo, at: 06/28/2012 05:41 AM

My situianal depression I think is from the situaition I am in right now, a bad relationship.