aniston30062
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I was diagnosed with Borderline personality disorder, an anxiety disorder, and severe depression.
I have been cutting myself for 5 years. My therapist of two years was the only one who was able to help me stop. Then she had to stop doing therapy to work in a hospital. That along with the fact im homesick, begging my mom to let me come home and she refuses are the reasons I began cutting again.
I also am bordering on anorexic.
Yeah. I know I suck.
But Im 19 years old and thinking about my future.
I studied theater passionatly in a performing arts high school for 4 years.
Now Im 14 hours away from home at a conservatory for theater andhating it.
I decided that I really, truly want to become a therapist. I thought about it extremely hard.
so my first question is... do you think its possible, once im cured and have completed my therapy... for me to become one? Or would being one just make me more emotionally unstable? Im not kidding on the fact that I really, really want to become one. Seeing how my therapist changed my entire life I want to be able to help people through things like this. Is it possible for me to become one?
But moving on, Im worried about my children. I dont have any now, and I am not planning until I am older... But my father is a manic depressive with an addiction to painkillers...
The point is... will my children be at an extremely high risk for mental illness?
I dont want them to have to go through what I have been through.
Yes, my Borderline came from being sexually abused at a child. but my fathers didnt...
I really want to have children but Im so worried they might become sick because of me.
What ARE the risks? and should, when im older, I risk them?
I have been cutting myself for 5 years. My therapist of two years was the only one who was able to help me stop. Then she had to stop doing therapy to work in a hospital. That along with the fact im homesick, begging my mom to let me come home and she refuses are the reasons I began cutting again.
I also am bordering on anorexic.
Yeah. I know I suck.
But Im 19 years old and thinking about my future.
I studied theater passionatly in a performing arts high school for 4 years.
Now Im 14 hours away from home at a conservatory for theater andhating it.
I decided that I really, truly want to become a therapist. I thought about it extremely hard.
so my first question is... do you think its possible, once im cured and have completed my therapy... for me to become one? Or would being one just make me more emotionally unstable? Im not kidding on the fact that I really, really want to become one. Seeing how my therapist changed my entire life I want to be able to help people through things like this. Is it possible for me to become one?
But moving on, Im worried about my children. I dont have any now, and I am not planning until I am older... But my father is a manic depressive with an addiction to painkillers...
The point is... will my children be at an extremely high risk for mental illness?
I dont want them to have to go through what I have been through.
Yes, my Borderline came from being sexually abused at a child. but my fathers didnt...
I really want to have children but Im so worried they might become sick because of me.
What ARE the risks? and should, when im older, I risk them?