wondering...and confused...please help!!
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wondering...and confused...please help!!
| Wed, 01-31-2007 - 1:11pm |
I know i have OCD and never even considered having Borderline Personality until today when I read the symptoms. I'm 27 years old and I do have severe mood swings. I can go from being happy to feeling depressed for no real reason. I can get so angry at my parents for no real reason and just yell at them. I go from feeling great about my relationship and then the minute I leave him or if he signs his letters with "bye for now" instead of "thinking of you" I start wondering if something is wrong. I go back and forth constantly on where I think his feelings stand. And then last night, for example, I was talking to my mom about plans for my birthday (today) and my family was going to take me to dinner and I was gonna drive the hour down to my boyfriends house after. My mom didn't want me driving that late and said we could just change plans to Saturday. I got depressed about it, kinda wanting to but feeling guilty about changing the plans. I almost felt like breaking up with my boyfriend just to not have to deal with it (because he had to work and couldn't come down) and I was just so upset over the whole thing. None of it makes sense and trying to explain it all now it seems stupid. I've been kinda melancholy all morning because of this.
Could it be BPD?
Please help!
Could it be BPD?
Please help!

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I don't believe anyone on this board is a pdoc (psychiatrist), but I think several people will agree with me that you should see one. Pdocs are the only ones really qualified to say if you have borderline, or bipolar (this is a bipolar board btw and not a borderline board. Someone else can post the link to the borderline board.)
Some of your symptoms do sound both like bipolar and/or borderline, to me, anyway.
Express!
Beth "Petrouchka"
Disclaimer: I am not a psychiatrist.
Yep, it sounds like borderline to me. I had that diagnosis for a while before they realized that it was just mixed episodes(I am bipolar). In my case I was pretty baffled because I had no other symptoms at all of borderline, just the moods swings. Fair warning though, I would *NEVER* recommend that anyone try to confirm that diagnosis, everyone I have ever dealt with in the medical community was *horrible* to me during the time that I was considered borderline, even people who had been helpful when I was considered bipolar, now that I have shed the borderine diagnosis everyone is nice to me again.
Medical people(in my experience)tend to view people with BPD as manipulative and will bend over backwards to keep from reinforcing negative behavior. This basically translates into being cold, ccritical and in some people, downright cruel. I was inpatient once during all of this and a nurse yelled at be(literally raised her voice) and told be "Stop this, you don't have to be like this"