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Hopefully I will feel stronger in the next few days and be able to respond properlyView Thread

I have to dash to work right now but didn't want you to think nobody had read your post. Will put a longer reply up in the next couple of days - really really busy atm and trying to hold it all together.
Take care
BodView Thread


So so pleased for you.
Looking forward to catching up and seeing how you go. Will always be here to talk skills etc when you start as well.View Thread

I don't know how it works in the States (I am guessing you are there - please correct me if I am wrong) but here in the uk you are offered CPA's (Care Plan Assesments) where people from each team you are involved with come together, with you, to discuss treatment and work together to get the best combination. At my last one I had 2 psychiatrists from different areas, my care co-ordinater and my community psychiatric nurse as well as me.
Sounds like your dr and t are thinking in different terms. A t will possibly have a longer term objective than a dr who may only look at the imediate symptoms and medicating to deal with them.
I have found being straight with them and saying I don't understand cause Dr X told me something different can help. depending on the response you can always ask them to speak to each other. (although I don't know how that works with the US heath system)
Not sure if what I have just written is any help at all.View Thread

The best thing you can do is ask them. They probably think you understand the terms they are using so don't explain them. The internet can be a double edged sword - lots of information but sometimes it points us in totally the wrong direction (or scares the hell out of us) when all thats needed is a bit of personal communication at the beginning.View Thread


got to go to work soon but hope all will be resolved when I get backView Thread

I think I still don't trust my t. don't let on as much as I probably should but it is a safety mechanism - if I don't tell you everything and actually believe in you then when you let me down I won't be totally stripped of all my layers.
I am very sorry that the person you trusted so much then let you down and as a bpd'r I know how much that rips at you. I know you are hurting and feel your pain. I also hope you can maybe try the following - even if it is only a few seconds a day....
You have so much anger (and other emotions) inside you if feels like it is going to swallow you up. I want you to collect some things you find calming and soothing (could be photos from holidays, family, a favourite scarf or jumper etc) and to find a comfortable, safe place. you could put some nice music on, or maybe have an oil burner or insense going. I want you to think about a time - any time when you had the warmth of being happy - doesn't have to be a major event, could just be a little tiny thing but it connected with you. try and hold on to that feeling. doesn't matter if it then goes - you know it is there, deep inside you. Try and replace a bit of the hate inside you with a bit of sunshine.
You don't deserve to feel like this - none of us do - but we can to learn to live with it. It isn't your fault the clinic and your old t did what they did. I know you did some things but I really think your old t wasn't trained to deal with bpd as well as she may have thought.
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