I have recently received my diagnosis after being under the team for 5 years and approaching discharge. In many ways I seem like you when depressed I can present as having BPD in terms of self harm/suicide but I know that if I was never depressed again I would never self injure again. Anyway my diagnosis is bipolar with traits of EUPD. When i asked what trait it was because I self injure.
That said it is possible to have bipolar and BPD co morbidly mood swings is just one symptom.
Definately talk it through with your psychiatrist and see what he says.
Ps I should say that the bipolar diagnosis has been my working diagnosis for years but the team I'm under don't diagnose properly until discharge.
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