Posted by sid on May 18, 2002, at 13:00:11
In reply to A Big Question -- about Borderline Personality Dis, posted by Sarahmarie on May 17, 2002, at 22:46:04
Hi Sarahmarie,
my GP has been trying to push this diagnosis on me too, so I can relate!
I wrote to a former therapist, at a clinic where I had taken several psychological tests done during my major depression. He sais that dysthymia was a likely diagnosis, but not BPD. He said (and I read it elsewhere too) that many people supposedly with BPD have undiagnosed or misdiagnosed MOOD disorders rather than a personality disorder.
Also, from past therapy, I've learned that anger kept inside is in fact past hurt, sadness, kept inside, which over the years turns into anger. Deal with your emotions on a daily basis, try to deal with past hurts, heal your depression, deal with your OCD and the anger will go away.
If you feel she is wrong, don't let her convince you otherwise. However, as someone wrote to me last week (katekite? sorry, I'm not sure...), if you argue a lot about this, she may take it as yet another symptom: argumentative, angry, etc. Can you talk to a former therapist? Ask for a formal diagnosis (by a pdoc), or indeed, talk about it calmly, and tell her that you don't believe you fit the profile.One major issue, from what I was told, with people with BPD is time alone. Can you stay alone? Do you like being alone? Apparently, people with BPD can't stand being alone and tend to cling to people and be very demanding. If you don't fit the anger pattern and you don't fit the picture about time alone, then I'd say you don't fit the BPD profile.
I was also told on this board that BPD is overdiagnosed, especially when therapists don't know what label to put on you.
Good luck!
- sid
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