Story My therapist told me you can cure bpd

[Clowndollie]

Recently, when I finally got diagnosed, I felt pretty horrible. I know all the things people say about people with bpd and how hard it really is for others to understand. I told my therapist about my worries since I've been really depressed and a bit suicidal again, and I don't know if she said this to cheer me up, but she told me bpd is curable. I think that she means that there a certain bpd traits you can have, but with therapy and the right help you can lessen these traits and not be eligible for the full bpd diagnosis anymore. This honestly did gave me new hope. I have always felt great empathy for others and I see how much this disorder hurts my family and I would love to be a better sister and daughter, also a better friend and maybe for the future, also a better partner. Even though I know I'm going to fall back again and sometimes think that's it's never going to work out and that I should rather die, even then when I feel suicidal I still have this burst of energy to heal and become better. I didn't have this before and I'm wondering where I got it from. Maybe because I genuinely want to heal. Maybe because I genuinely want to try! So that's what I'm going to do. I still feel really depressed and tired at this moment but I will start with looking into more hobbies, spiritual knowledge, self love, volunteer work and therapy. I will try to heal the trauma my abuser brought upon me. I wish myself luck <3

Ps. I'll try to update sometime to notify others of my plans/achieves :) I want to let others know that you can also live an okay life while living with bpd and autism

 

[alltoomuch2]

Recently, when I finally got diagnosed, I felt pretty horrible. I know all the things people say about people with bpd and how hard it really is for others to understand. I told my therapist about my worries since I've been really depressed and a bit suicidal again, and I don't know if she said this to cheer me up, but she told me bpd is curable. I think that she means that there a certain bpd traits you can have, but with therapy and the right help you can lessen these traits and not be eligible for the full bpd diagnosis anymore. This honestly did gave me new hope. I have always felt great empathy for others and I see how much this disorder hurts my family and I would love to be a better sister and daughter, also a better friend and maybe for the future, also a better partner. Even though I know I'm going to fall back again and sometimes think that's it's never going to work out and that I should rather die, even then when I feel suicidal I still have this burst of energy to heal and become better. I didn't have this before and I'm wondering where I got it from. Maybe because I genuinely want to heal. Maybe because I genuinely want to try! So that's what I'm going to do. I still feel really depressed and tired at this moment but I will start with looking into more hobbies, spiritual knowledge, self love, volunteer work and therapy. I will try to heal the trauma my abuser brought upon me. I wish myself luck <3

Ps. I'll try to update sometime to notify others of my plans/achieves :) I want to let others know that you can also live an okay life while living with bpd and autism

Yes I was told that after 10 years, 90% of people with BPD no longer fulfilled the criteria.

 

[ladylazarus4]

This makes me so happy to hear. Yes, BPD is not chronic! It is very hard to live with and hard to recover from but far from impossible. Have you tried DBT? that is what is helping me.

 

[ImTelling]

BPD is permanent if you want it to be. I'm trying to make my BPD permanent.

 

[tinyhotot]

When u get some answers about what helps... please let us know. I want to be fixed too

 

[let.me.let.go87]

My last therapist told me that too. I eventually terminated coz it wasn't what I'd hoped. He stuck me in DBT. After two years he still expected me to keep up DBT even tho I was in college and nothing had changed (some stuff has now that I've quit and I've had ECT but it seems to be wearing off tbh) he expected me to be absent from college one day a week for a class I hated and I seemed more like insurance fraud to me then it did like he was actually caring about me. He also started telling lies about me, and it turned into an entire blowout fight between me and my therapist and I terminated. If your therapist tells you that DBT cures BPD I read online that apparently it can but it's like half of the people that take it or something and I don't even know if that's true because when I was in DBT more than half of the people that took the class seemed to just drop out eventually in two years time I think six people " graduated " but I met at least 45 people. So IDK

 

[LostSoul524]

I was diagnosed last year and from what I've learned and seen, DBT is what "cures" BPD. That being said DBT is skills based therapy and you have to continue to practice the skills to manage BPD. I haven't had any luck find therapist or group that specializes in DBT yet so I don't have personal experience on how it works.

 

[laetitia7]

you can enter a remission state when you no longer fit the diagnostic criteria. CTB and DBT are really helpful in getting you to develop skills and ways to "cope" with life adversities, symptoms, thoughts, etc.

 

[alltoomuch2]

I was diagnosed last year and from what I've learned and seen, DBT is what "cures" BPD. That being said DBT is skills based therapy and you have to continue to practice the skills to manage BPD. I haven't had any luck find therapist or group that specializes in DBT yet so I don't have personal experience on how it works.

Have a look at the videos of Marsha Linehan, who invented DBT. Really interesting. One of her videos voices her opinion that hospitalisation of suicidal people is probably of no benefit.
This is a good video of Marsha but there are quite a few

Have a look at the videos of Marsha Linehan, who invented DBT. Really interesting. One of her videos voices her opinion that hospitalisation of suicidal people is probably of no benefit.
This is a good video of Marsha but there are quite a few

Here's another

 

[justkatie]

Can I just clarify what you mean by BPT.

As far as my understanding is, it's Borderline Personality Disorder, which I feel I can talk about.

But some people say it's Bipolar Disorder, which is something similar but very different.

If it is Borderline, the best I have managed is to learn my triggers and cut as many of them off as possible. I live a boring life where I try to avoid conflict as Borderline is not rational thoughts.

Stopping regular social media made a huge difference but even in daily life I can still feel myself instant spike over the tiniest things.

CBT was patronising crap, DBT felt a waste of time to me.

 

[dogteeth]

this isnt specific to bpd but ive heard really good things about emdr for helping recover from trauma!