Dear Anita,

I love both! Maybe when I move to Bristol I can get a pet in my house as I know they are therapeutic and would love to have an animal to look after 🙂 🙂 My sister has a pet dog and she’s been really good for her: it’s taught my sister a lot of compassion/ how to care for something etc.

I started sorting out my room last night – and read your post when I was. Thank you, it has helped me to accept that these emotions are going to come around, and that there’s nothing I can do except for simply to feel them… Trying to resist them only makes it worse. The pain is so much, it comes to my eye’s in tears, I feel the infinite sadness, and then it goes away again.

Me and my sister do try and have a supportive relationship. Although sometimes it can be how it was when we were younger, where we argued lots because of the environment we were in. She has BPD, and she struggles a lot.

I am seeing a psychologist tomorrow to talk about whether I may have BPD/ bipolar.

Cat