heya, i know it's possible to suffer from more than one mental illness, but does anyone know if you can have both borderline personality disorder AND bipolar?
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no, but i have only recently accepted my diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, but have been doing a lot of reading, and although i fit the criteria for borderline, i also fit a lot for bipolar... i was going to ask my cpn what she though, but she's new and doesn't really know me, so wouldn't be much point... i was diagnosed with depression a few years ago, but they keep changing it, borderline has kept the same for a couple of years though,
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Tears dry, hurt doesn't. Life is for living, don't waste it. Hurt fades.
if you dont stand for something, you'll fall for everything
while there's life, there's hope
life is a great canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can...
Bipolar and BPD have some overlap but often there is quite a distinction. There is also a very different basis/root to each.
It's really important not to try and self-diagnose, or read up on disorders, it's so easy for people to start subconsciously displaying symptoms of a disorder they have been researching.
Talk to your Dr/CPN about what you are experiencing, try not to focus so much on the symptoms, but how you are feeling and thinking.
Take care
i have thought for a while about maybe being on the bipolar spectrum, even before i really knew too much about it. i know other people with bipolar, and they say that i kinda fit in to he diagnosis. i know its bad to read too much stuff, but i need to know as much as i can about stuff, kinda like paranoia. i get anxious if i dont know things. i'm seeing my cpn on friday, will discuss my thoughts with her.
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Tears dry, hurt doesn't. Life is for living, don't waste it. Hurt fades.
if you dont stand for something, you'll fall for everything
while there's life, there's hope
life is a great canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can...
Hi,
yeah you can be diagnosed with both, originally i was diagnosed with borderline PD and cyclothymia. however in the last year or so my cyclothymia has developed in to full bipolar disorder and i still have the back ground diagnosis of borderline as well.
regardless of whatever the problem is, treat the symptoms, treat the effects on you, not the effects the internet says a certain illness (that you may or may not have) will cause.
See a dr/psychatrist if concerned and discuss your problems not symptoms of bipolar.
I am diagnosed as both bipolar and BPD!
When I went to uni I was transfered to a different psych, GP and CPN/social worker.
There they diagnosised me as bipolar but my Dr from home was saying I had BPD....
Because they never bothered their asses to get together and actually talk about it, i been giving both as well as an eating disorder. That kinda pisses me off though knowing that Ive been giving a triple diagnosis because they havent talked about it =|
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