Hey,
my name is Eleanor and I live in the UK. I am a student and a counsellor. I love reading, writing, music, the usual stuff :)
I have a diagnoses of BPD. Do I think I have it? Don't know. What I DO know is that my doctors from when I was young seemed to swing from PTSD to BPD. I also know i have a set of symptoms and it is those symptoms I choose to work on rather than the diagnoses as a whole. I have been responding well to therapy in the last 3 years although it has taken 14 years of therapy to get me where I am today.
I suffered a lot of trauma as a child and as a young person. I grew up in the foster care system then children's homes. I was sexually, physically and separately severely emotionally and emotionally abused. As a child I was taught I was worthless, reminded that my mother didn't want me, I was fat and ugly and would amount to nothing. The messages I received have stayed ingrained into me. I can now accept that beliefs and opinions are not fact and that the people who told me these things were wrong in doing so.
I hope to be a part of the forum and hope to give as much as I get out of it :)
Eleanor xx
my name is Eleanor and I live in the UK. I am a student and a counsellor. I love reading, writing, music, the usual stuff :)
I have a diagnoses of BPD. Do I think I have it? Don't know. What I DO know is that my doctors from when I was young seemed to swing from PTSD to BPD. I also know i have a set of symptoms and it is those symptoms I choose to work on rather than the diagnoses as a whole. I have been responding well to therapy in the last 3 years although it has taken 14 years of therapy to get me where I am today.
I suffered a lot of trauma as a child and as a young person. I grew up in the foster care system then children's homes. I was sexually, physically and separately severely emotionally and emotionally abused. As a child I was taught I was worthless, reminded that my mother didn't want me, I was fat and ugly and would amount to nothing. The messages I received have stayed ingrained into me. I can now accept that beliefs and opinions are not fact and that the people who told me these things were wrong in doing so.
I hope to be a part of the forum and hope to give as much as I get out of it :)
Eleanor xx
