Where else can I find help?
- The BC Schizophrenia Society (BCSS) Victoria Branch offers the New Light Recovery Workshop. This is a 16 week, peer-led psycho-educational workshop based on Dialectical Behavioral Techniques for anyone experiencing overwhelming or dysregulated emotions, including those with BPD. For more information phone Elizabeth 250 384 4225.
- BCSS offers one- on-one Peer Support with a trained peer support worker for anybody with a mental illness, including those with BPD.
- Victoria Mental Health has a Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) program that is part of the Urgent Short-term Assessment and Treatment (USTAT) Program. The DBT program requires a referral by a physician to Mental Health Intake. 250-381-3400.
- Vancouver offers an intensive BPD outpatient program. The program requires a psychiatric assessment and referral from a physician. You can reach the BPD Intensive Program at 604-875-4794
I am struggling with BPD and PTSD so hard right now. I feel very alone and I have thought suicide as an answer in the past, but right now I am considering it much more seriously. I have made a plan including the place, date and method. Having said that, there must be some tiny part of me that still holds out hope or I would not be writing this at all. I’m sinking fast. I have been hospitalized more than half a dozen times in the past year because of self-harm, drug overdose and suicidal thoughts and behaviour. I feel like I am wasting valuable resources that someone who is really very sick could be using when the ambulance comes and I’m taken to the hospital. I think “Why are you wasting your time on me? You cannot help me.” I think, there is no point in using up the resources on me that another person could use to get better when I know that I cannot get better. I turned 50 years old last week, and I realized that I have spent more than 80% of my time on earth in a living hell. Hurting myself and hurting my family and friends and being a burden to everyone. There is no special age that a person has to live to, and I think that I am ready for all this pain to be over even though people say “You’re so young!”
By: Heather29 on April 10, 2011
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Hi Heather,
I am so very sorry you are feeling this way. Please know that you are not alone and that recovery is possible from BPD. I know this because I have made a successful recovery – well now for almost five years. I know life seems like a living hell right now, but you must trust me that things can get better, especially if you have the right support and treatment. What is your support system – family, friends, mental health professional? If you live in Victoria, BC Canada, I hope you will come to one of our support groups.
Take care,
Elizabeth
By: SupportforBPD on April 13, 2011
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Hi new here and was wondering if anyone knows of any support groups in Texas? Specifically in the Houston area? I have been seeing a therapist and been reading all sorts of articles to increase my knowledge of my disorder but it would help me tremendously to be a part of a support group.
Thanks
By: Ellen on February 20, 2012
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