Borderline Personality Disorder · Living with anorexia

Monday morning thoughts

I weighed myself this morning.  I’m not supposed to.  Once a week, that is all I’m allowed.  But who can cope with that?  I need to know my weight.  Every day.  So I weighed myself this morning. My weight is the same as yesterday.  It’s killing me.  Why haven’t I lost?  Did I eat too… Continue reading Monday morning thoughts

Community Support & Outpatient Therapy · Living with anorexia · Treatment

Mental health services are bizarre

So, this week’s update… I am being discharged from the eating disorder service. Considering  how much I am struggling to eat, my meal plan long abandoned and am losing weigh once again, this seems as strange step. But my psychiatrist thinks I have borderline personality disorder and is referring me to the team that deals… Continue reading Mental health services are bizarre

Borderline Personality Disorder

Do I have Borderline Personality Disorder?

Questions are swirling around my mind.  It’s a big diagnosis to take in. Do I have borderline personality disorder?  What does that mean?  How long have I had it?  Can I be helped?  Did it cause my anorexia?  Is something wrong with my personality?  What should I do? My psychiatrist described two different types of… Continue reading Do I have Borderline Personality Disorder?

Borderline Personality Disorder · Living with anorexia

Borderline Personality Disorder and Anorexia

So, today I received a new diagnosis which has inspired me to write a blog post for the first time in a long time – apologies  for the long silence! Today my psychiatrist has told me that I have Borderline Personality Disorder.  There have been questions for a while as to whether I have another… Continue reading Borderline Personality Disorder and Anorexia