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** I am NOT looking for any comments from a NON ** Usually I don't care, but with this I do.

For the rest.. I'm just trying to get everything that I'm obsessing about out of my head.. Feel free to read, comment, but not necessary...

About 2 months ago I gave my new therapist about 100 pages worth of poetry that I've written over the years to read (if she wanted to). Today, she ...

I am 28 now, yes, as of today :) Yet all throughout school, I was never able to make any friends. I had "at school" friends, which lasted about two months before I had to establish a whole new set of friends. But I didnt have my first actual "outside of school" friend until high school, and even then, he was the only friend I had. Since ...

I place rules on everything...
I do not communicate these rules to others bc they are MY rules, yet I get infuriated and snippy when an unknowing friends breaks my rules.

How do I let go of ALL of these unnecessary rules?

-Terry

I have a problem. My fiance is foreign and I need help explaining and teaching BPD and DBT to him in HIS language. Other than google translate which is often wrong, I don't know what else to do! I don't know his native language name (something like Aramaic - it's old) but he reads and writes in Arabic.

Any suggestions? Any at all??

Life is VERY hard for us right now. On top of him ...

In my experience, one of the hardest parts of having BPD is that I know a lot of things, but I don't feel them. Somehow, because I don't feel them, it's as if they can't be true. My mind seems to tell me that if they were really true, I would feel them, wouldn't I?

Knowing vs Feeling

I know that my best friend loves me. I know she needs other people who give her ...

OK. To start, I do NOT welcome nons to post on this thread unless you have some pretty amazing insight. I'm allowed to say that, right? Since this is primarily a board FOR pwBPD. I need some intimate understanding here.

In short:

S/O did something that made me freak out and think he was abandoning me. Now confused about my lack of desire and some anxieties regarding speaking to him. We're in a long distance ...

Hey.

I've been described Sertraline Hydrochloride (Zoloft) by my doctor for BPD after years of being unsuccessful on Citalopram. Does anyone have any experience of being on this drug or know anything about it?

Many thanks...

I feel like I'm going insane. Questioning the world we know - is it reality. How do I become real? If I can't, and I already know this much, I end up destroyed, by my own hand.

I caught a glimpse, and then it disappeared. I need to get back there. This shell isn't me, this isn't my life.

I have taken some pills tonight, but they have only intensified what I already felt.

There ...

I was reading the thread Life and Just A Thought and it made question some things so I thought I would ask here. I didn't want to derail or take away from another.

I have not been diagnosed as having BPD. Actually my therapist said I wasn't when I questioned him on it. He did say I had Reactive Attachment Disorder and then told me I would benefit from going on an antidepressant to regulate ...

I once mentioned having had some problems with what I was terming "magical thinking", and people interpreted that as "thinking about or believing in magic". I'm not posting about me now, though I'll use an example of me being a paranoid twit...

Magical thinking is a type of causal reasoning or causal fallacy that looks for meaningful relationships of grouped phenomena between acts and events. In religion, folk religion, and superstition, the correlation posited is ...