Teenage borderliner!?
Good evening, this is going to be quite a long text, but I really need advice/help.
I'm 16, turning 17 in 3 days, a (trans) man, and according to my psychotherapist, I have borderline personality disorder (and mild depression, both diagnosed about a year ago).
Sure, teenagers shouldn't be diagnosed for their hormonal fluctuations, but in my case, I would also say that something is wrong. I didn't really Google symptoms, etc., and I didn't take it all too seriously.
About 5-6 years ago, I dramatically transformed from a happy, extroverted toddler to a super-withdrawn, introverted teenager. No one knows why or where this change came from.
Over the years, everything has improved a lot. I find it super easy to talk to people again, make friends, and I've generally become more active again.
Nevertheless, from highs to lows straight away. One event that gets in the way of my false imagination and my mood plummets. It's (usually) quickly forgotten and then everything is fine again until the next low, which is all "triggered" in different ways and for the most unnecessary reasons. If it were just for me, I wouldn't care… Unfortunately, however, the whole thing also has a huge impact on the people around me. One second we're laughing together and the next I'd like to push the person over the head (I hope you understand what I mean…). In the moment, on impulse, I express myself in a completely disoriented and unnecessary way, which only makes every situation worse and the whole thing just becomes too much for me.
I am in a relationship with someone who is rather bad at communication and this is weighing heavily on my mind.
Since I started my training as a restaurant specialist in August, the lows have become more frequent and more exhausting.
I just don't know what to do, and my therapist can't help me either.
What should I do? What ways are there to protect myself and others?
I look forward to any reply, thank you very much.
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So how about a fixed therapy is stationary or day clinic.
The therapy with your therapist seems to be no help (more).
You need to get to know better so that you can understand your me better and get your everyday life better.
Because I’m in an education, how’s that going? I know that my brother was in a day clinic and was picked up there early and came back in the afternoon, so it doesn’t work through my work:/
Then you have to put the training in the back. You write that the training the lows come more often.
Your health is more important.
If you keep doing this, it’ll probably only get worse, and at some point you can’t do it anymore and everything will collapse. Then all mowing was in vain.
Better act now.
Talk to your therapist. If she can’t help you herself, she might help you find a place stationary or at least in a day clinic.
I don’t know what to say about the diagnosis with 16. But have you ever tried it with a substationary therapy? Or stationary?
At the BPS, the DBT best helps but the clinics that specialize in a DBT are also usually from 18.
Yes, many psychiatric/psychiaters are only from 18, which makes all this so much more difficult
I haven’t really thought about this because nobody’s been busy with me. Thank you for your answer
There are also therapists who offer a DBT. But the many DBT from 18 makes sense even when it is first diagnosed with 18 .