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Before i went into the hospital i was at the bottom of a downward spiral. I had only a couple of ok days. Then it started to feel like im in the middle of that spiral again. Im hopeless, helpless , empty and ashamed. I should be better. I tried to tell someone close to me and they just shrugged me off. Im so embarresed that i cant even tell anyone. Whats wrong with me? ...

As someone with an ongoing, though sort of manageable these days, eating disorder I get obsessive about exercise. I used to push my body to breaking point and though I don't do that any longer compulsive thinking sets in whenever I hit the gym.

At the same time I find that exercise helps my mental state, calms me down and lifts my mood.

Due to a back injury caused by overdoing weights at the gym ...

hello community, 20 year old guy here, haven't gotten an official diagnosis but im pretty sure i have bpd.

my question is, do you guys react to criticism as hard as i do? it's crazy how hard i take it. if someone criticizes me about something, it's like i change that thing about myself. for example, if someone criticizes me about a song, i won't like that song anymore, or at the very least be ...

Hi been prescribed venlafaxine and Valium I've
Been taking the Valium but not the venlafaxine
I've heard lots of bad things about it and I feel
So hopeless that I feel nothing will work!!
Anyone got any thoughts on this? Will it help
My bpd symptoms and depression???

Hi anyone who reads this...

I wrote this post a couple of weeks ago and saved it to drafts - so the content happened a couple of weeks ago.This is my first post on this forum. Please forgive me if I mess up as I'm not too au fait with forums - I'll do my best.

I have been diagnosed with unspecified personality disorder - traits of BPD and Histrionic PD - although I'm not ...

I have a friend who I have known for about 20 years, we went to primary school together and he is the only friend I have. In the time he has known me he has seen me do some pretty terrible things to other people and he has stuck with me even though he disagreed with me. I have on three occasions gone paranoid on him and left him without looking back and with no ...

After I came to the realization I had no friends the other day, I guess everything just went to heck after that. Instead of feeling depressed and crying over it, I just felt detached and empty. I still feel like that today. I keep spacing out pretty bad too. I feel like I'm absolutely alone, and I hate it..

What do you guys do when you feel empty? Or rather, how do you make yourself ...

Hi,

Ever since I was diagnosed as borderline I have read a lot of info on it, some I relate to, some not at all. After ruling out (through years of misdiagnosis's) everything (bipolar, etc.) here I sit a borderline.

I watched and read about some of the more "famous" borderlines who have written books, etc. A lot of them list having trouble with friends as a big problem. I've never had this. I was ...

So from what I understand the main difference is that the borderlines failed to cope and build proper defense mechanisms and therefore suffers deeply inside while the narcissist built proper and reliable self defense-mechanisms but suffers the same abondonment issues.

Its quite a mind paradox because the N has the B "pathological child" but different mechanisms surrounding such well, I don't really know you get the idea i'm no psychologist lol.

So who 'wins' at ...

If you have a pervasive, ongoing, impossible to escape, SENSE... that someone from your past whom you fell madly in love with IS, even empirically, given every attempt to find someone to contradict this notion, TRULY one-of-a-kind, and therefore eternally irreplaceable, is it possible that you could actually be correct? Yes, I realize that that is the run-on sentence from hell, but bear with me. What if the possibility of the above scenario being true ...