Multiple PDs?

I think I have BPD and ASPD. Does anyone know anything about having multiple PDs?

I was told I had BPD when I was a teenager, but because I was young they couldn't give an official diagnosis.

I think I might have aspd too. I have some friends who have aspd, and the things they say about themselves resonate very strongly with me.

It might be possible that I don't have aspd, but bpd definitely doesn't account for everything that's messed up in my head.

A lot of my friends were surprised when they found out I have bpd because I have very shallow and fleeting emotions.

It's possible that my emotional response is being stopped by something other than aspd. I don't really know.

help?

BPD has 256 combinations of the 9 diagnostic criteria and you only need to have five of the nine criteria to be diagnosed. Someone could have criteria 1,2,3,4,5 another person 1,3,5,6,7,8,9. This doesn't even take into account the severity of the symptoms displayed. My point is not every BPD is exactly a like, so the fact that you have shallow emotions doesn't mean you necessarily have a comorbidity with ASPD. However, it is very possible that you have both disorders and it's also possible you were misdiagnosed as BPD. I would bring these feelings up at therapy. Tell your therapist that you think you have ASPD. Tell her/him how you fit the diagnostic requirements for ASPD.

Here is a link to comorbidity rates between each personality disorder.

http://www.outofthefog.net/Disorders/Comorbidity.html

Chainedlynx wrote: Here is a link to comorbidity rates between each personality disorder.
http://www.outofthefog.net/Disorders/Comorbidity.html

Thanks for the link. I have BPD and AvPD, and have lately been wondering how the 2 disorders interact with each other. I often feel emotionally and mentally taxed because I feel like I am constantly spending so much energy going upstream battling against 2 somewhat debilitating disorders. It is incredibly hard work.