Q. Do people with BPD ever get over it??
A. Absolutely.
Q. I’ve been going to counselors and people since 4th grade. I’m a senior and 17 now. Ever since, I don’t know when, it’s been hard for me to keep a good grasp on life.. I used to be horrible with my temper, and still am, but this past year, I went away from home, and everything got a thousand times worse.
I got actively suicidal, didn’t eat more than once a day for 6 months (except once a month when I was home for a weekend) and, had problems. I got shocked by someone into seeing what was happening to me after trying to jump off a bridge, and I got better.
I had always thought of myself as a mostly honest person, but up at school I found myself telling everyone a different story. I didn’t mean to, but it happened somehow. I still don’t feel better, and I fight with suicidal urges every day….. do people with BPD ever get better? If they do,.. maybe I will.
You are clearly suffering. Try to read as much of this website as possible. The great news is that borderlines who want a happy, successful life can now have one.
You can’t have it however doing the wrong things over and over again. Zig Ziglar says it well: “if you keep on doing what you’ve been doing, you’re going to keep on getting what you’ve been getting.”
I have a phrase I say a lot: “Everything you do that hurts you, hurts you. Everything you do that helps you, helps you. It all counts.”
The BPD is a medical illness that causes psychiatric damage. It’s treatable.