Life with Borderline & Bipolar2

Life with Borderline & Bipolar2 my life with mental illness accepting and embracing my diagnosis of BPD & Bipolar 2. i share my stories to help others.

It all started last November sorry it’s taken me this long to write it … I got up for work one morning made myself a cof...
27/01/2025

It all started last November sorry it’s taken me this long to write it …

I got up for work one morning made myself a coffee like always and came and sat in the garden. I then had this awful dreaded feeling come over me and started to feel really anxious .
I sat with it for a bit trying to work out why I suddenly felt like this. I got ready for work and went off and seemed to get through the day although the feeling never truly left me. I wasn’t in work the next day and I felt fine. The morning after that I was back in work again and again I started to get the same feelings of anxiety, fear and dread… I knew then it had something to do with work..
the next day I didn’t have work but found myself lying in bed all day and not feeling so good mentally. I felt drained. But I was finished work for the week so I could concentrate on getting myself better for the next week at work.. during that week Steve asked me a couple of times what was wrong and if I was feeling ok I lied and told him I was fine. I didn’t want to admit I might be falling again. The next week was Steve’s birthday week and I was supposed to be working three days, I went I on the Monday but called sick on the Tuesday I told Steve I had called in to spend his birthday with him, which was partially my reason.. maybe he would have believed me if I hadn’t spent half the day in bed. I went into work on the Wednesday and I had the same feelings in the morning but this time I had them all the way to work.. but I was fine when I got in.. on the Sunday I was due to go into work again but this time I was really I’ll I had diohrea and I ached all over I head was pounding and I felt like crap.. I rang into work, of which there response was “wtf”… I couldn’t believe it I messaged my manager who by the way had written this and he more or less told me he didn’t believe I was I’ll.. a few messages were sent back and forth none of which were very nice …. I couldn’t believe a manager would speak to me like this and with me already at a low ebb this just made it even worse.. I put in a complaint to his manager to which I have never had a reply.. I knew I couldn’t go back so I handed in my notice… I felt gutted I so wanted to be normal living the normal life but I can’t even hold a job down.. even if I wasn’t I’ll that day it was coming to an end. So I’m back feeling down and not feeling great about myself. I’m not doing anything.. although Morgan is still making me leave the house…

I started psycho therapy today I’ve been on the waiting list for 4 years.. so we’ll see how I get on with that..

Sorry for the long message but I wanted you to have the whole story xx

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23/01/2025

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25/12/2024

Merry Christmas to you all xx

Hi guys I can’t believe it’s been two years since I last wrote.. in my last post I said it would be a journey not a dest...
19/08/2024

Hi guys
I can’t believe it’s been two years since I last wrote.. in my last post I said it would be a journey not a destination and boy what a journey it’s been..
I started to go down hill again, nothing set me off.. it just happened.. I started to not care about myself anymore, after only just picking myself up and starting to care it was all turned around so quickly. I remember staying in my pjs all day not bothering with my hair or brushing my teeth, not washing, not showering.. and feeling so low and empty.. to be honest I must of looked and smelt terrible.
I had no motivation to do anything around the house… the house was getting in a bad state.. my husband did what he could but he was working full time, having to cook and look after me.. not an easy job.. my husband is a great support to me and without him I wouldn’t be here writing this today… I would get up in the morning stay up for about an hour then go back to bed I was so tired.. when I got back up I would fill myself full of chocolate to try and make myself feel better.. this only resulted in me gaining weight and feeling even worse about myself… so what could I do I was stuck… then it came to me, I would overdose.. I would get out of this, if I took diazepam it would either kill me or make me feel better… but Steve( husband) had locked up my tablets from the last time.. he had the key hidden.. I searched everywhere for that key.. I was getting frantic and frustrated.. I took the box that the meds were locked in took it outside and smashed it on the floor.. it came open all the pills came flooding out.. I could take what I wanted… but I only wanted the diazepam.. I took 15 tablets.. everyone was in bed and I just sat there alone wondering if I might die soon.. what was going to happen to me.. I started to get scared.. paranoia was taking control.. what if they get up and find me dead… what happens if it don’t kill me but gives me brain damage.. oh god what have I done… I went upstairs and woke Steve and told him what I had done… he immediately called 999 and got me some help… they took me into hospital.. where they monitored me for hours.. my blood pressure had fallen significantly and they were struggling to bring it back up… but after hours and hours in a&e I eventually got moved to a ward where I was assessed… I got put back under the crisis team and they would come out the same day and assess me again.. I was allowed to go home under strict supervision of Steve.. the crisis team came out and thought it best I go into crisis house again to keep me safe… so it all starts from the bottom again…

like I said before they give a lot of one to one sessions.. and try and prepare you to go back home.. after a weeks stay I returned home.. where I still remained under crisis team.. this was only the start of my journey little did I know what was still to come!
I’ll save that for another post as don’t want to bore you too much 😃..

Thanks for all your support whilst I’ve been away!! 😃xx

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