I don't want to feel this way. I suffer from Borderline personality disorder.?
Question:
Meds don't, help, Dr's don't help. I'm unempployed with no health insurance. I feel so screwed!
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Medications usually don't help Borderlines change there behavior and thinking. Sometimes meds help the symptoms such as depression.
What you need is something called DBT therapy. This is therapy that was specifically designed for Borderline Personality Disordered patients. It involves close connection with a therapist and group therapy.
ALthough you have no health insurance, you might find a therapist who will work with you on a sliding scale basis ~ ie what you can pay.
Please look into DBT.
see a psyciatrist. (I know I spelled that wrong!)
The best treatment for borderline personality disorder is dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT).
Basically, DBT maintains that some people, due to invalidating environments during upbringing and due to biological factors as yet unknown, react abnormally to emotional stimulation. Their level of arousal goes up much more quickly, peaks at a higher level, and takes more time to return to baseline. This explains why borderlines are known for crisis-strewn lives and extreme emotional lability (emotions that shift rapidly). Because of their past invalidation, they don't have any methods for coping with these sudden, intense surges of emotion. DBT is a method for teaching skills that will help in this task.
How it works
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) consists of two parts:
1. Once-weekly psychotherapy sessions in which a particular problematic behavior or event from the past week is explored in detail, beginning with the chain of events leading up to it, going through alternative solutions that might have been used, and examining what kept the client from using more adaptive solutions to the problem:
Both between and during sessions, the therapist actively teaches and reinforces adaptive behaviors, especially as they occur within the therapeutic relationship. . . the emphasis is on teaching patients how to manage emotional trauma rather than reducing or taking them out of crises. . . . Telephone contact with the individual therapist between sessions is part of DBT procedures.
(Linehan, 1991)
DBT targets behaviors in a descending hierarchy:
* decreasing high-risk suicidal behaviors
* decreasing responses or behaviors (by either therapist or patient) that interfere with therapy
* decreasing behaviors that interfere with/reduce quality of life
* decreasing and dealing with post-traumatic stress responses
* enhancing respect for self
* acquisition of the behavioral skills taught in group
* additional goals set by patient
2. Weekly 2.5-hour group therapy sessions in which interpersonal effectiveness, distress tolerance/reality acceptance skills, emotion regulation, and mindfulness skills are taught (see summaries of sample worksheets). Group therapists are not available over the phone between sessions; they refer patients in crisis to the individual therapist.
ok , Your vacation was ruined and everything so your having a hard time coping with it. A BPD individual takes things so hard, and it is very difficult to bounce back when things do not work out the way as planned.
in my state there is medical insurance for people who do not have a lot of money.
Perhaps check with your social services department about medical insurance for the low income individual?
Having support from a therapist or counselor is the way to go. I know things look helpless right now, however, if there is a will there is a way.
Don't give up! Medication does not help a BPD anyhow, unless they suffer from depression or have psychotic episodes. you do need the support though and probably someone you can trust to talk to.
Take it one day at a time. I know you don't feel good right now but it will get better. I think i'm pretty crazy, so if I get a job and make it through the day so can you.
By the way, Houston's not so bad. Its just hot and rainy right now, tomorrow's another day.
You can get therapy without insurance. Most mental health clinics operate on a sliding fee scale for those who are uninsured, although medicaid is also available if you are low income. Catholic Charities also accepts people on a sliding fee scale if you have no insurance and they will waive a fee altogether if you are in need and cannot afford to contribute to your treatment. Check your local Catholic Charites office to be certain that they provide therapy-not all do.
Meds and doctors really aren't terribly helpful and DBT is great for many, but it isn't the be all and end all treatment for everyone. It may take a while to find a therapist who you really connect with and you need to realize this isn't fast food therapy-it is long term psychodynamic treatment with a therapist who you have the ability to develop rapport with and who can empathise as well as confront you and you need to tolerate the confrontations and make a committment to change. There most certainly is help available if you want it and are willing to work at it and don't expect a quick fix.
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