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.

Liveagain gave this response on 4/7/2000:

Growing up with alcoholic parents can make one have the appearance of being manic. It can also give one the appearance of having multiply personalities which the two are classified as BPD. Both of these symptoms can come from low self esteem which happens when one grows up with alcoholic parent or parents. If you had to seek therapy at the age of ten, I'm thinking that there was verbal and emotional abuse in your household as well as physical. These types of things can make one appear to have BPD because of the way the individual reactes to life which they can't help. The low self-esteem makes you co-dependent which could put you into situations which the abuse will continue throughout your entire life. Once you get these problems solved, there will be no need for medicine. If it's truly BPD, then you'll need to stay on medicine your entire lifetime, which there is nothing wrong with this if it enables you to live a normal, somewhat carefree life. It could also save you from subjecting yourself to abusive situations.

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Thankyou:)