Confusing Truth About Depression and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

Seen all of his videos years ago

As someone with bpd I always feel this anxious distress, this inability to speak my feelings, and a constant feeling of sadness and grief. It is tough to navigate. This video is a light in the middle of a dark sea to me. Very useful.

Thank your very much

Playing guitar helps clear my mind. But when the fingers hurt and you gotta stop everything rolls back… im alone nobody to talk to. Not easy !

Brrrrr is right. All my life. No other way to describe it, but you nailed it🎉

I got my BPD diagnosis in 2016 and was 25. I Have C-PTSD and PMDD. I never really felt depressed. I would say in a perpetual stage of the grief cycle. When I am chatting in the PMDD support groups there is definitely an overlap between BPD and PMDD although not officially researched. Those of you who are female and tend to feel really horrific after like two weeks feeling everything is manageable is usually hormones. I am not a medical professional but I have seen many about this. Never underestimate how powerful hormones are. I found my destructive behaviour would flare significantly 2 weeks before a period. I remember at 25 getting the diagnosis it felt like a death sentence. MBT and meditation, some medications as well as lifestyle changes all helped me heal and at 33 I feel I can survive this after almost ten years thinking this illness would claim me. I am happy alone and don't seek things from a partner. I nurture myself so I can be strong and resilient for future flare ups. to all of you younger than me, around age 28 things significantly improve. you can beat this and heal

This makes me believe i have been misdiagnosed with bipolar 2, when I really have BPD. This sounds exactly like me.

I have PTSD, Clinical depression, chronic pain, generalise social anxiety and was born 3 months premature with Spinabifida and BPD.

How do I know if I have disassociave tendencies? How do I tell the difference? Also how do I find a decent shrink?

Great video

HOLY S**T!!! This explains SO MUCH! At 17 I was diagnosed as bipolar and possibly secondary BPD, and put on Prozac. Because of my "anger issues" while on prozac, I was taken off that and put on some kind of sedative (I was literally told by my psychiatrist "you dont need an antidepressant, you need something to sedate you"). My mother eventually got them to take me off that, because she knew it wasnt right that i would just be sleeping all the time. 8 months later i was put on Lithium, but that didnt really help either, and eventually I just wasn't on anything or getting any treatment. Then at 35 I was again diagnosed as bipolar, and put on both a mood stabilizer and anti psychotic, but they didn't seem to be helping, even though they kept massively increasing my dosages on both. That combined with changes in my job situation, and thus doctors because of insurance, they just kept piling on the medications. I was on Lamictal, Seroquel, Lithium, Propranolol (because of tremors from the lithium) Resperidone, and Geodon, all at the same time, with a few other meds thrown in and taken out of the mix to try to "fix" me (Lexapro and Doxepin), and I felt WORSE, not better. I was constantly having major meltdowns over stupid stuff like ice cream. My doctor wouldnt listen to me, so eventually i decided to take myself off everything except the lamotrigine and seroquel (i did tell bith my psychologist and psychiatrist that i was going to do this, and had daily visits with them during the process, but it SUCKED big time. Eventually due to losing insurance I couldnt see anyone anymore, and couldnt afford those meds anymore, so I slowly weaned myself off them, with what I had left in my bottle. I also had taken up buddhist meditation on a whim, and actually felt MUCH better for years. But about 2 years ago, I started sliding downhill again. I did have a crisis situation in January, but luckily made it through the night, and decided I NEED HELP. So ive been trying to find a therapist (Im trying to avoid psychiatrists because i dont actually trust them anymore) but fall into the category of making too much money to get affordable care, but not enough to afford care, and while i do have insurance, i cannot afford the deductible i would have to pay before they start covering 80%. I finally got in to see a psychiatrist last week (only person i could get into that was willing to help with the fees) and he asked me if I had ever been diagnosed with BPD, because I had told him that i truly did not believe I had bipolar (was "cycling" way too quickly between moods, like DAILY), and I refuse to go on any medications. So I started looking into BPD, because of the "possible" diagnosis when I was 17, and the fact that this Dr seemed to think that is what it is. And as much as I wanted to reject the idea of having BPD, it just makes sense, all of my messed up pieces fit the puzzle. And now I see this video, and that even explains why the meds didn't work. Sadly, i still cannot afford therapy, so I bought a DBT workbook 2 days ago (the psychiatrist recommended dbt therapy to me), and I'm gonna give it a go on my own, until the day comes that I win the lottery jackpot and can afford an actual therapist.

I wish you could make a simple to understand video I can show my boss about BPD and how to provide supervision to someone with BPD in a manner that is helpful and doesn't focus on fault and blame and wrongdoing and actually supports professional success and development! She doesn't seem to get it and I'm struggling to describe it to her or what would help me rather than trigger me!

This was really helpful. Now, can you do a piece on the differences in BPD in autistic versus allistic folks?

Thank you for this video, I feel it has helped me understand better, BPD is horrible, and it's not an easy subject to talk about, depression is recognised and accepted however. And treatable!!

6 years later, now that we've had several papers come out exposing.Exposing the harm caused by these drugs used to treat depression.That often caused a worsening of the state.Do you still stand by them Cause if you do , that's why a lot of people don't fucking trust you

Doctor I didn't have any stressors until I lived in a one room apartment with a fucking cat

I don't know if I have bpd. I do have some traits, but Idk if it's bpd or just past trauma..
I'm pissed off about the absolute shit that has been assigned to me in the life lottery.. the only lottery I've ever won is the dad lottery.

My trigger is this world.. All the misogyny and homophobia, mainly from religious ppl. And I can't do jack sh1t to make anything in this world better.. I feel tired, disappointed and helpless.

Great video. Thank you!

LOL. SOUNDS LIKE THIS GUY NEEDS TO HEAL MULTIGENERATIONAL GRAPE OR PDFFILE EXPLOITATION TRAUMA IN HIS GENETIC LINE. THIS IS NOT REAL ITS ECOLOGICAL ILLNESS FROM POLLUTION AND WIRLESS AND TRAUMA – CPTSD – BUT YOU DONT HAVE TO HEAL AND YOU CANT MAKE MONEY OFF A CURE CAN YA. I HATE QUACKS LIKE THIS.