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Hello,

I'm new here to ChrstianForums, and I just wanted to introduce myself and hopefully make a few friends.

My name is Kristina, and i'm just recently finding my faith, and I can't express the feeling to have found a christian support group for me.

I'm 22 with Bipolar II disorder, and Borderline Personality disorder. That's a lot for anyone to deal with, let alone family and friends, and mine have been great. My fiancee of 3 years has been wonderful, he gpes to my visits with me every other appointment, one visit I go to alone, and talk one on one with py psychiatrist, the next he and I go as a couple, and just recently my family has grown to understand how this affects me, and has started researching and learning about my disorders.

It's good to finally find a support group that will both be supportive in my growing faith, and also to know I am not alone.

It's nice meeting you beforehand!
 
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Hi Kristina! It's nice to meet you! I am kind of new also as I have just come back from a long absence from CF.



I also am diagnosed with both Manic-Depression/Bipolar Disorder (Type I) and Borderline Personality Disorder (which has also been pretty severe at times), so I can really relate to what you have probably been going through.

It's good to see you here and I hope you find the support you need here at CF!

 
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Hi and welcome,
I no longer officially have the diagnosis of BPD, but I have been in therapy for 18 long years because of it. I lost my marriage due to the disorder, and my inappropriate behaviors.

I just want to encourage you that there is hope.

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My diagnoses are severe major depression with psychotic features and Borderline Personality Disorder -- couldn't focus on my grad school work when I had a relapse in 2003 and was dismissed from grad school I went back to live with my mother and got on SSI (Social Supplemental Income). Not really the life I anticipated for myself, but it is quiet and peaceful. (I am taking my meds, which help immensely.) Also, having so much spare time has given me the opportunity to have set times for prayer every day; serve as a catechist, lector and Eucharistic minister at church; and to become a Lay Carmelite (I'm Catholic).
 
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