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New to support groups. Hoping to find people like me or that I can just talk with.

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Hey everyone! I'm new to the support groups but considering traditional therapy hasn't helped me and has made me feel even more isolated, I wanted to find another way to communicate. A little about me; I'm 24, a wife, a (step)mom, and overall dedicated woman to family. I'm a very social person, but I have borderline personality disorder. This makes it incredibly difficult to find friends or even someone I can talk to without them saying "just get over it", "it isn't that serious", or "other people have it worse". I'm aware that so many other people are facing issues that I couldn't even imagine, but I need help with mine. I hope you all will give me a chance to see if this can help me in any way.

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Madibreann

Hi I'm also 24 and new to these groups! I have recently been suffering from extreme agoraphobia so I'm not very familiar with what you're going through, but I can understand needing someone to talk to! People that haven't dealt with an anxiety disorder can be very quick to dismiss the severity of it in someone's life. I've too heard just get over it. It's not that easy or we would do just that 😊

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BonnieSue

People who say "just get over it" really mean "I don't want to be bothered with your problems so go away". But here you'll find people who have experienced enough problems similar to yours or close enough to have compassion and some understanding that we can be supportive without having had your exact problem. And I think there may be a few who have your exact problem sooner or later.

We have all kinds of problems here, big and little, and you're sure to find a friend or 2 or 3 who you like to keep in touch with if you just keep coming around and checking in from time to time. I have atypical depression, GAD, some OCD and PTSD (self described). For awhile I thought I had bipolar II but my doc explained that she didn't have a category that I fit in so she just called me that in order to bill me. So I've got atypical depression and I'm not actually bipolar II, even though she called me that for quite a while. I take a mood stabilizer and an SSNRI. Go figure.

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