Help.
Hi, everyone I need someone to talk to. I think I have bpd. I don't want to self-diagnose myself, but I've been with my therapist for over a year now and she never tells me what is wrong with me. I've done so much research on my symptoms and everything points to bpd. I have depression, anxiety, and ptsd, but the one I'm most concerned about is the bpd. If anyone on here has some time to message me or however the chat works, that would be greatly appreciated. I need someone to explain my symptoms to and my relationship circumstance to so I can maybe understand myself better. I'm confused and I feel alone. Please help.
How it works is you have to request a chat with a listener. A listener cannot start a chat with you. You can either choose a listener yourself and send them a message, or you can just ask to start a chat and wait for some listener to come along.
I think you're right not to self-diagnose. BPD can be difficult to diagnose even for professionals. Researching symptoms can be very misleading.
In a way, your therapist is right not to give you a diagnosis, because therapy and diagnosis are different things. Your therapist might even think that diagnosis is unhelpful. I do hope it's something you can discuss with her. You could ask her to recommend a psychiatrist who can assess you and give you a proper diagnosis.
Listeners and members here cannot really diagnose you. Even if you find a listener who is a psychiatrist in real life, it would be impossible for them to diagnose you on the Internet.
@jfols08
Usually before you get diagnosed, you have no idea that you're actually sick. I hope it's not BPD. But you can always talk to me, I have lots of experience with it :)
@alexlove Thank you. Is there a way to chat one on one or do we have to do it through the thread?
@jfols08 yes of course, just click on my profile and click on "Send a message" and there you go.
