Theraputic communities for people with BPD

[Angel2fire]

I was wondering if anyone has ever been in one of these, and how helpful it was?
Also is it difficult to get funding, and who were you refered by?

I am currently having more and more frequent crises. I am unhappy at home (even though I love my husband and little boy a lot.) I'm pretty certain I wouldn't be able to live alone as I have panic attacks if I am left alone for longer than 10-15 minutes.
I've toyed with the idea for a while when it was mentioned by my pyschiatrist but I said "No I would miss my little boy growing up and I would miss my husband" (the psych was talking about a placement of a year or two.) But things have been getting harder and harder and I would quite happily leave if I had somewhere to go.

I'm unsure what would constitute being "ill" enough to be given the funding for a place though as I imagine it must be really expensive.

Thanks for reading

[baggyjeans]

http://www.recoveryourlife.com/forum/showthread.php?t=160648&highlight=BPD+%26amp%3B+th erapeutic+communities

Hey, Here is a thread I started a while back. It has lots of responses on this. *hug*

[whirlpools]

I went to a TC. It was really helpful. I think these sorts of specialty services do a lot to help people with complex needs.

I applied for funding at the beginning of 2006. I started the TC at the end of Spring 2007. It took that long to get funding! But that was around the time of some major funding changes, so I highly doubt it'd take that long now.