nisinirvana asked this question on 4/6/2000:

I was diagnosed with BPD in March of 1999. I have had mental/emotional problems my entire life but generally dropped out of therapy within the first six weeks(therapy started for me at age 10)for various reasons. When I stated going lat year again I was given medication for the first time ever, wow it had made an enormous diference. My question is my therapist does not think I have BPD she thinks I am quite simply an Adult Child of Alcoholic/Codependents that has had an exssevie amount of. When studding both issues I see they are very very similar in nature.Can anyone give me more info on the correlation between the two, is there any? Should I believe my Psychiatrist who had me fill out a bunch of tests and talked to me for an hour.

Eaglet gave this response on 4/18/2000:

First, BPD is either Bipolar or Borderline personality disorder, which are we talking about? I have been told I was Borderline and OCD, but no one seems to agree with eachother. Sometimes I think that there is no concrete answer. I am impressed with your Psy., mine sees me for a whole 15 minutes and I didn't take any tests or anything else. Yours sounds like they really care and want to help, they are willing to actually spend time with you. I have been told that there really isn't any set questions to diagnosing disorders.

sorry I couldn't bee more help at this time. God Bless

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