Bipolar is NOT borderline personality disorder !!

Borderline personality disorder is a mental disorder that results in four groups of symptoms:

1.Impaired Emotional Control: excessive, poorly regulated emotional responses, especially anger, that change rapidly;
2.Harmful Impulsivity: impulsive behaviors that are harmful to you or to others, such as spending sprees, excessive use of alcohol or drugs, self-injurious acts (e.g., cutting), physically aggressive acts and sexual indiscretions;
3.Impaired Perceptions and Reasoning: suspiciousness, misperceptions, an unstable self-image, a poor sense of your identity, and difficulty in reasoning under stress; and
4.Disrupted Relationships: tumultuous relationships with a person close to you that vary from extreme fear of abandonment to episodes of excessive anger and the desire to get away from that person.
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Instructions: Enter the number next to each statement that is closest to your condition for both the Current and the Past with:

0 (not present); 1 (mild); 2 (moderate); or 3 (severe).

1. My emotions change very quickly, and I experience intense episodes of sadness, irritability, and anxiety or panic attacks.
2. My level of anger can quickly become inappropriate, and intense.
3. I suffer from chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom.
4. I engage in two or more self-damaging acts such as excessive spending, unsafe and inappropriate sexual conduct, substance abuse, reckless driving, and binge eating.
5. When upset, I engage in recurrent suicidal behaviors, gestures, threats, or self-injurious behavior such as cutting, burning or hitting myself.
6. I have a significant and persistently unstable image or sense of my self, or of who I am or in what I truly believe.
7. I worry about what others think of me, or I have suspicious ideas, or can become paranoid (believe that others are planning to harm me); or experience episodes under stress when I feel that I, other people or the situation is somewhat unreal.
8. I engage in frantic efforts to avoid abandonment by people who are close to me and on whom I depend.
9. My relationships are intense, unstable, and alternate between the extremes of over idealizing and undervaluing people who are important to me.

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Ian Reynir wrote:I saw this thread, and I wondered what would motivate it, but then I saw the one on is she bipolar and I see where this is comming from.

First, I don't think that the vast majority of people know what bipolar disorder is or boarderline personality disorder is.

ladyswan wrote:When someone is severely manic they often lose the ability to self-regulate and control impulses. This can include lying, being promiscuous, stealing when money runs out, delusions of grandeur, ruining relationship, and other things generally seen as symptoms of BPD. It's common to see people with comorbid bipolar and BPD. Neither one of these disorders is more positive than the other; they are both destructive.

There is so much stigma floating around about both of these disorders. No more is needed, especially when it comes on the back of elevating one as better than the other.

Copy_Cat wrote:Of course, even here, I am the bad guy when its all over.

darkroses wrote:I think diagnosis is a very subjective thing anyway.