Guest guest Posted July 18, 2012 Report Share Posted July 18, 2012 Good morning, all! I've been lurking a good long time and finally decided to come out into the open. My nada is an un-diagnosed BP who is a very unhappy, mean, Witch/Hermit who has worked hard at making me miserable all my life. I am a bi-polar II with BPD characteristics. Sometimes my therapist (who just moved, so I am getting another) has said that I *am* a BP, though at the tame end of the sliding scale. Even so, when she labeled me BP, I cried for a couple of days. Probably silly. I am who I am, but I have so long equated my nada with something closely akin to evil that I have trouble accepting her diagnosis of me. I have read with interest the posts here regarding 'fleas'. Many have said in the past that if you get help and actually stay in therapy, you do not have BPD. However, my therapist has said that she has many BPD patients. My question is how can a person tell if they only have fleas (abandonment issues, getting hurt and pushing people away, mountains out of mole hills etc.) or if they really are BP? Don't all those behaviors also apply to BPD? Is a diagnosis of BPD based totally on the inner experience one is having? I would love to believe that I am not BP and that I only have echoes of my mother's teachings left in my behavior. But I just don't know. Mimi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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