Husband doubts my diagnosis

Hi Everyone!

I'm not sure how I feel about this so I thought I would share to see if anyone has encountered something similar and how you dealt with it.

I have just received my diagnosis of BPD and when I told my husband he said he didn't believe it. He is a mental health nurse but he is recently qualified and is certainly not an expert in PD's

I tried to explain that people with BPD can present differently and we aren't all like Glen Close off fatal attraction. He went off and searched the internet for about 20 minutes and hasn't said anything since?

I feel embarrassed like he doesn't believe me but I don't want to mention it and have to start defending a condition I am only starting to understand myself.

Feeling confused :/

BPDs are portrayed as being totally unstable and crazy, which is true only for a very small segment of low-functioning ones you'd find in a psychiatric ward or in prison. More likely, the pwBPD lives a pretty normal life, but the symptoms surface in intimate relationships and it is there they wreck havoc on those they are closest too.

It's possible your husband has had another experience with a BPD and that has skewed how he views other people with the disorder, forgetting that they are individuals with their own set of traits too.

Just to throw a different perspective out there, is it possible that he would react like this to any diagnosis because he loves you and its much closer to home than dealing with others.

Hope it resolves soon

My thought is in . How he said he doesnt believe it.

Thanks for the replies it has given me some different perspectives.