Bpd and paroxetine?
I’m 20 (F) and struggle with Borderline Personality Disorder. Early this year I was experiencing extreme panic attacks (unrelated) and my doctor put me on 10 mg of paroxetine in January to help my anxiety. In the first couple weeks, it was almost euphoric. My panic attacks were completely gone. I used to be having them every single day and I hadn’t experienced one since I had gotten on the meds. after a couple weeks, the dose was upped to 20 mg.
Before the meds I had been in one of the best spots in my life doing so mentally well I’ve been a year and three months clean from self harm. I was in a healthy relationship and my BPD symptoms were basically dormant for about a year. About a month after I started the meds I started noticing I was splitting which wasn’t normal for me and it kind of just got got gradually worse and more often until I was splitting almost every single day about small things. Over the weekend, I had a manic splitting episode that ended in me getting arrested. In this past week, I had never felt more suicidal more manic or uncontrollable in my life, and this is completely not like me. I looked up a bit about Paxil and what it does to people with BPD but I wanted to know if anyone else has had a similar experience where their BPD got significantly worse after being on this medication.