My BPD diagnosis
Hey guys,
I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder earliee this year, but I have reasons to suspect my psychiatrist skewed it and couldn't really figure out what I had. So i'm here hoping to find BPD diagnosed friends who could talk to me about their experiences so I maybe could figure out whether my diagnosis was accurate or imprecise
@Gl00mer I don't think it's wise to compare with others, so you can decide if you agree with the psychiatrist's diagnosis or not. I have BPD, but my boxes checked off won't be the same for others. Not everyone experiences BPD in the same way. Please keep that in mind. If you don't agree with what your psychiatrist put down, you can always get a second opinion from another provider. I'm just a stranger, but I think that's better than being online or in forums comparing what you have with other random people. Anyway, good luck.
@Gl00mer
Hi, welcome to 7 Cups 💜 Want to second what @YourCaringConfidant said:
- People on the internet won't be able to reliably/ethically diagnose anything since experiences can be pretty diverse and there are a lot of nuances to diagnosis (e.g. non-professionals aren't really trained/qualified to evaluate diagnostic criteria, not everyone with BPD will meet all of the same diagnostic criteria, people with BPD can have other comorbid mental health conditions, symptoms of BPD can have overlap with many other mental health conditions, general personality differences can affect how BPD is expressed, etc.)
- So talking to a different mental health professional might be the best bet if you don't trust your existing psychiatrist and want to revisit the diagnosis and get an authoritative second opinion
Having said that, if you do want to find people to chat with on 7 Cups who have lived experience with BPD, here's a link with a list of experienced/community-vetted listeners who accept chats on BPD and also marked in their listener profiles that they have lived experience with BPD:
https://www.7cups.com/BrowseListeners/?badge=0&find=&sort=&category=44&ageGroup=&listType=listener&gender=&religion=&country=&language=&verifiedlistener=on&livedExperience=on