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Q: BPD - Watching a friend die
asked by: Misanthrope on July 13th, 2009
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Hey everyone.

I am in dire need of advice.

One of my close friends is going to die and I have no idea what to do. She has recently been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder.
I have red about this and know about everything about it. I know about her mistakes and do not have any problem with them.

The problems begin when she starts drinking. She will be fine the entire time, but when she gets home things start to change. She would suddenly run to her medication and try to drink as many as she can. When I try to stop her, she says that she hates me and starts to kick and bite me.

I was recently diagnosed with frontal lobe epilepsy with still fits that initiates psychosis. knowing this one when we were drunk we were just talking and suddenly she got a knife and begged me to kill her. First I thought she was joking, but then I saw she was crying. She tackled me to the ground and put the knife in my hand. She then pushed it towards her neck.

She is living with a friend that tells me that this happens very often. I am not angry about anything, I just want to know what to do. I cannot be there everytime this happens and at this rate she will die for sure. I care very much for her, but am totally confused about what to do.

I thought it could be her medication mixing with alcohol, but it started happening before she was on her meds. There is no way she will ever stop drinking, so what am I to do?

I know Borderline includes self-destructive behavior, but it is like she gets a fit or possessed or something. She goes into a frenzy for about an hour. After that she is calm.

Is this part of Borderline Personality Disorder, or can it be something else?

What is the best way to help someone that do not thing there is anything wrong with them?
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kdlee
replied on July 16th, 2009
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Honey all you can do is be there for her..Everytime something happens would be hard on you but you can call her to say you are there..My sister has bipolar and she has extreme highs and extrmeme lows..She also has problems with light and must have artifical light to make her happy..My sister still drinks but no longer goes out to bars mostly due to money issues but she also gets embarrassed of her behaviour..She would either get on the bar and dance or start a fight..It is a sad disease because enve with meds it is easy to see at least with her that something is just on the service wiating to happen..
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timeisshort
replied on July 16th, 2009
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some people may dissagree but i believe this is due to a mineral unbalance. medecine now a days just don't put any importance in balanced nutrition. theres no sense treating the symptoms when the cause is left untreated!
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kdlee
replied on July 16th, 2009
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Morning honey what can be done to help? what nutrition can be used? I will let my sister know..kd
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timeisshort
replied on July 16th, 2009
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Hey sis! all symptoms have a link to a deficiency, it is the deficiency that over a long term creates the symptom-s & illnesses. so i believe the best way is to study the symptom & relate it to the function that each vitamin or mineral is involved in to work out what is in a deficient state. ithyroid.com is good info as well as anyvitamin.com zest for life. It's taken 8months for me to get my calcium magnesium stable & balanced to the stage where asthma doesn't exist, muscle cramps associated with MS are no longer & i am noticing my nasal congestion is becoming less as each week goes by.
An alkaline diet is a real boost for the immune system.
It's not easy but it seems to me that doctors don't know how to do anything but treat the symptoms. I haven't used any medication at all to achieve the results that i have recieved but what the doctors were trying me on was only making my system weaker. This message is for all & i am here to help anyone who would like to try for them selves.
Sis, i am still trying to message you but they aren't getting through!
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Rachael077
replied on August 1st, 2009
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Really, she needs to want to help herself, as it is not within your scope to control.

One thing you can do to assist her though, is to be firm. Only spend time with her when she is not drinking, and leave if she starts. This will protect you also and you wont be empowering her ill behaviour. Remind her she has your support if she would consider abstaining from alcohol, and never drink with/in front of her.
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