I suffer from bipolar disorder I and fit almost all of the criteria of borderline personality disorder (I hate the stigma of the disorder, so I hate thinking of myself as a “borderline” … even though I probably am.) I used to also have full-blown bulimia, but it is pretty much “under control” now. I have been hospitalized five times over the past two and a half years, and have also been in an intensive outpatient program for my eating disorder. My interpersonal relationships almost always end on a sour note, usually as a result of my pushing the other person away and then regretting it and desperately wanting them back. I have made my family’s life hell and gone through a number of therapists and psychiatrists (they usually end up giving up on me … I’m not kidding.) I make poor decisions all the time. I can hardly look in the mirror when I consider some of the times I have done while manic or mixed.
Does it ever get easier?
2007-07-22
16:20:45
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