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Bpd
Can someone with bpd tell me how it feel like I think I might have that and I m trying to to get the right treatment if I do
Can someone with bpd tell me how it feel like I think I might have that and I m trying to to get the right treatment if I do
It’s different for everyone. And OCD and BPD have crossovers. But basically it’s extreme fearful avoidant attachment, sprinkled with psychosis, sprinkled with self harm/deep self loathing/ oscillating moods.. sometimes “borders” narcissism/ disassociative identity disorder. You are generously ruled by your ego parts and their whims. Harder to treat. Extreme black and white dualistic views or thoughts, always trying to convert the “self” to others, movements, different things sometimes rapidly.
@LiberaDancing I related to some symptoms but no others my symptoms are constantly negative thoughts about everything wave of sadness feeling feelings depressed and crying this feeling come together with the thoughts for example I get a thought that I m a bad mother I believe this thought and it make me cry and feel sad depressed if I don’t pay attention to the thought I m good but is super hard no to pay attention or to believe in it Sometimes I let the thoughts and emotions as sadness depress and anger pass but the cycle repeats through the day
@Monii This sounds like OCD causing distress and depression. BPD is pretty serious and hard to treat. It’s normal to feel like shit from Being mentally ill.
@LiberaDancing Yes could be OCD I just don’t know because when I get a worry thought I know is OCD anxiety but can the negative thoughts be also OCD for example when I get thought that my boyfriend is mad at me out of no where is this OCD or just negative mind I just thought I have bpd because my mood Change through the day and then I feel bad for being mean to people but what cause my mood to change is my negative thoughts that I get about everything never good thoughts
@Monii Right, anger and irritability and sadness can be a result of your CNS/ ans spirit being unwell. OCD and whatever other issues you are dealing with can cause mood swings. Borderline is very very different. How could you not be irritable or sad when your mind and heart feel damaged?
@LiberaDancing True Is impossible with OCD no to feel that way What’s CNS mean sorry I don’t know right now what making me depressed is how negative I m to myself and other and scared of if I can’t change this negativity I will Lose everything
I’m sorry you’re having a tough time. And I don’t think that’s borderline. Which is good, you don’t want it!
@LiberaDancing Yes I m trying my best to defeat this I m no on medicine And when I try to defeat the depression my OCd get worse and I relapse with OCD I m a super mean person but I don’t want to be which make me feel sad after
this is probably the most accurate way i can put into words my personal experience with bpd. more often than not, i exist in a state of emotional flatness—an affective baseline so muted it borders on dissociation. but in the rare instances when emotion does break through, it does so with such disproportionate intensity that it becomes all-consuming, leaving little room for measured response. my instinctive reaction to any form of psychological discomfort is immediate: a reflexive turn toward impulsive behaviors or fleeting sources of gratification that can, even momentarily, anesthetize the internal chaos. sustained emotional overstimulation often leads to the opposite extreme—an almost catatonic apathy, wherein the only viable coping strategy becomes complete emotional disengagement. the inevitable result is a persistent, gnawing void—a psychic hollowness that constantly demands to be filled with either significance or sedation. this dysregulation of affect, compounded by behavioral impulsivity, produces a chronic instability in self-concept. my subjectivity lacks continuity; who i am feels contingent upon the day, the hour, the context. my identity is less a cohesive structure and more a loose constellation of fragmented selves, each emerging in response to internal or external stimuli. in social dynamics, i frequently rely on deception—not necessarily with malicious intent, but as a form of self-preservation. i construct and inhabit fabricated identities, often so convincingly that i begin to internalize the fictions myself. vulnerability feels not only dangerous but untenable, due to long-standing trust deficits and a deeply embedded fear of abandonment, both of which are likely traceable to formative relational disruptions. i’m drawn, almost magnetically, to self-destructive tendencies. i dismantle my own stability—sabotage relationships, derail progress, reject affection—not out of spite, but because the emptiness within me insists i’m undeserving of anything more enduring. substance use has functioned as an expedient, if unsustainable, means of muting this internal dissonance. while i might appear composed, even rational, in moments of crisis, there’s an ever-present awareness that i’m not in control of my own decision-making. emotion doesn’t feel like a conscious influence; it feels like instinct—primal, immediate, inescapable. when distress arises—particularly the kind tied to perceived rejection or abandonment—it eclipses everything else. the need to extinguish that feeling overrides all other considerations. borderline personality disorder is insidious in its onset. you rarely identify it in real time. instead, you recognize it retroactively—when relationships are fractured, opportunities lost, and the damage already done. it announces itself through aftermath.
@beloiter I m sorry you have to go through that I hope it get better
@Monii was it of any assistance
@beloiter Yes sure it was
@Monii what is your consensus
@beloiter I relate to some of things you listed it but like 2 of them I don’t know if I have bpd or no ugh I will just tell you a day on my life lol I woke up with bad anxious thoughts and anxiety this thoughts are about my health scanning my heart and getting all anxiety symptoms then I also get negative depressed thoughts they make me feel sad and anxious at the sad time I cry though the day . this is a example early I feel sad then I get thoughts why I m sad why this feeling keep coming back I m tired of this then I get anxious I cry I feel sad mad but when all this thoughts passed I feel “normal “ again I can concentrate and have my mind clear And be normal person but then the cycle repeats is like a storm of negative thoughts depression anxious thoughts and crying after they passed I feel normal again so through the day I m up and down this why I thought is bpd I know is no bipolar I checked all the symptoms for that type 1 or 2
@Monii my guess? ocd, panic disorder, with slight bpd traits
@beloiter Yea could be but I was on my period that time it was way worse now I m no getting them as bad i can like work on it it could also be the depression OCD make me depressed I guess dealing with OCD and depression since a very early age gave me bpd traits
Hey, so idk if I have ocd, I would like to think I’m a very self aware person but I don’t wanna self diagnose at all, lmk what you guys think. So pretty much my whole life since I was young I remember having irrational fears im sure it was all trauma induced but when I was a kid I thought my father was poisoning me until I asked him, he started crying and was so shocked that I could ever even think that, my parents broke up when I was legit fresh out the womb, mom worked two jobs and disciplined me, dad let me do whatever on the weekends and got me snacks so I was obsessed with him so obsessed that it was mandatory for me to kiss his picture 20x everyday before school. Growing up I always felt followed by cameras or like someone out there was recording me waiting for me to do something embarrassing to expose me in front of the whole world and my life was over 🤣🤣 I thought my abusive ex bf was stalking me through my I phone camera after we broke up and it would truly stress me out, it made me believe that it was the reason he never reached out again bc I probably looked ugly in the camera he was stalking me through. If I fall out with a friend Ill over analyze everything to see if I did anything wrong and god forbid while I’m self reflecting I realize I did something wrong I feel like an evil person, verbatim the people I fall out with is bc they’ve done me wrong in some way and it has to b something hurtful or repeated mistakes for me to really stay away for good, so I’ll beat myself up for making mistakes with another person who’s made the same amount of mistakes if not more and in most cases I always fall short, and this when I question if it’s ocd or I’m just to self aware and see the ugly in me bc I’m not perfect and it’s just makes me feel so unsettled but again that’s a normal feeling and the next step is to forgive yourself and do better moving forward, not obsess over it like your trying to convince yourself you’re a good person. I’m also hot tempered and will say hurtful things when I’m mad I’m definitely a crash out in the way, you push my bottoms way too many times and I will shred you, and I’ll say things ik will hurt you and that’s just so low, then the anger goes away and I have to face the guilt, which makes my “ocd” 100x worse, it almost feels like I have to do everything right to not trigger it yet again I don’t have the self control to do it all right, I actually have a lot bpd tendencies again not diagnosing but I’m just trying to understand my brain. I worry about dying, getting a terminal illness. uti turning into kidney infection then into cancer kind of thing, knowing that life in general can b tragic is so scary to me, like what will be my story? What will be my life experience?. I believe that people see right through me and discuss it amongst each other, I always tell myself I am not that important but I can’t seem to shake it off sometimes. When I would break up with my ex I would have pre written paragraphs ready to b send if he ever decided to reach back and I would do this to make sure I didn’t forget a single thought, that every point i felt I need to prove was there, and that bothers me bc do I want win an argument or fix the issue. All of these feelings make me feel so pathetic and embarrassed people move on with their lives and I’m still stuck on something that happened 3 yrs ago. Then I’ll get manic get a tattoo, change my hair, go out clubbing do what I can to b the sexy young girl that I am and it helps in the moment but it worsens my mental after the euphoria is gone. I’m currently staying home, not going out, have only 1 friend so I feel like ocd progressively got worse now, I don’t remember it getting this bad in a while. lmk what you guys think don’t judge or think I’m embarrassing I’m actually so cool and if have to convince you I’m cool I will LMFAOO no but fr help
I’ve had the feeling I had ocd ever since I found out about it at the age of eleven, I don’t want to self diagnose thought but I want to find out and I would ask a professional but I am a minor and live with my parents, my family is not from America and any disorder even stuff like depression or anxiety means crazy to them so I’m scared to talk abt it to anybody. Ever since I was like 7 I noticed that if something happens or I feel something in one part of my body I immediately have to do it to the other cause it just won’t feel right, as a kid I even explained it to my parents in the car once and asked if they feel like that sometimes too. I used the example of me accidentally touching water on one foot and then having to do it to the other or else it just isn’t fair to the other foot and I’m like evil. It’s also like that for me if I like hit my arm then I have to do it to the other too. I have many other symptoms of OCD but idk if I actually have it. For example every-time somebody leaves me on read or something I feel like they hate me and don’t wanna be friends with me anymore. Idk it just feels so weird sometimes. Also sometimes when I’m writing something maybe for school or anywhere I always have to reconsider every single sentence because what if somebody takes it the wrong way or it makes somebody mad. And sometimes I feel like the rudest and meanest person in the world. I actually don’t know if that’s an ocd thing idk at this point. edit: after thinking some other things that could be a sign of ocd might be when I was about ten or nine, for about a year I had the biggest fear of losing my mom, it came out of nowhere and I would cry begging not to go to school because my mom won’t be there bc what if she dies. I cried at tennis practice once even tho I toke it with my mom because she went to the bathroom. I was genuinely so scared idk what made it go away tho. Like whenever I had a thought of her it would immediately make me think she’s dying and I would just sob. tysm for reading!! 💕💕
hiiii everyone I’m new to this app :) I’m not sure if anything in here is a trigger for others so I just put a trigger warning js in case 😭 Sooo I’m actually not medically diagnosed with ocd, but I’ve had a very very strong feeling that I do for a few years but I haven’t told anyone abt it, bc i feel like it will sound like I’m trying to fake a mental illness for attention or something. Also, I know it’s bad to self diagnose, but my symptoms just sound a lot like ocddddd ans I want to go into therapy and get diagnosed or something bc I’m pretty sure I have ocd and even if I dont, I know what im experiencing is not really normal 😭 Some of my symptoms: Having like very sexually or violent disturbing images or thoughts pop up in my head that won’t go away and I have to like (this is so hard to explain) block it out in my mind over and over Having to repeat things and count things over and over for example I ALWAYS like I mean ALWAYSSSS. have to repeat “thank you God for today please keep us all safe and healthy” in my head especially when I’m anxious. And I don’t have to repeat it just in my mind either I have to like mouth it outttt. It’s so annoyingggg 🥲 My “magic” numbers are 3 and 10 bc I have 3 sisters and 10 is just the perfect number like it’s so equal. So basically I have to do things three times and if I count over three by accident or even think of it I have to count up until 10 and if the same thing happens I have to keep going until I reach 30 NOT 20 bc that means that bc there’s a 2 in the number one of my sisters will die 🥲 And if I don’t do any of these stuff that my brain tells me to do, you know that feeling when you have a huge itch and it’s itching super bad but you can’t scratch it?? It feels exactly like thatttt and I think that if I don’t do it smth bad will happen even though I know it won’t but like just in case I guess?? 😭😭 When I decide to try to go against these stuff it makes me super super anxious and sometimes, I have random like “attacks” where just nothing is perfect or just right but I can’t fix any of it no matter how many times I count, repeat, or cross it out in my mind, I get so much anxiety and it’s the WORSTTT. I’m not asking for a random person to diagnose me instead of a professional, but I just need advice. Thank you guys 💗 (edited)
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