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bpd and bipolar

Postby Ashley10 » Thu May 26, 2016 6:32 am

Does anyone have bpd and bipolar?

I have both and am currently on a lot of meds for my bipolar. I just started an intensive inpatient program for bpd.

It's sometimes hard to tell what is from being borderline and what is from bipolar. I know some borderlines have bipolar. That makes it hard with meds and management. My pdoc says the antipsychotic and mood stabilizers will help with bpd too, but I take them for both.
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Re: bpd and bipolar

Postby NotQuiteVanilla » Thu May 26, 2016 5:57 pm

I was diagnosed with BPD in 2013.. about 4 months ago I went back to my psychiatrist as I was convinced I had bipolar too but she dismissed it straight away, explaining to me that to be bipolar I would have to have high's and low's that last longer than my current ones do now. I can literally be high for 10 mins right now and then low within an instant x
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Re: bpd and bipolar

Postby NimplyDinply » Thu May 26, 2016 11:00 pm

I don't have bipolar disorder, but I'm guessing if a mood episode seems to come out of nowhere, as in no environmental triggers, that may be your bipolar rather than your BPD.
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Re: bpd and bipolar

Postby dizzy_m0315 » Wed Jun 01, 2016 12:25 am

I have bpd and bipolar, i went through a period of the "professionals" going back and forth with my diagnosis before about three months ago they finally said that it was both. Bipolar one as my initial and then borderline personality and post traumatic stress disorder as my secondary
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