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Borderline Personality Disorder | What is BPD? | Signs of BPD

Innocent Forever

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I was diagnosed with BPD 18 years ago, but there have been a lot of discrepancies as the NHS doctors say one thing, while private psychologists and therapists say my symptoms are closer to C-PTSD. I have a constant state of anxiety, catastrophising, and back to having suicide ideation. Do others have this issue that one is mistaken for the other?
There are a lot of professionals including in the UK/NHS who say that BPD really is CPTSD / attachment trauma.
 

Innocent Forever

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It's so tragic that so many people are being misdiagnosed. Many women, instead of being diagnosed with CPTSD, ADHD, or Autism, end up being given a BPD label.
It is. And it's reality. I was actually referred for an asd and adhd assessment. When I read the letter from the asd assessment she'd written - sonething like - has a diagnosis of eupd but they're questioning if really it's ptsd or asd. I actually don't fit the criteria for bpd and have never had a full assessment so where is that diagnosis coming from (other than female who is suicidal and self harming). I was definitely surprised to see ptsd on there. Not that it might not be accurate but that it hadn't been discussed wuth me.
Anyways not sure what the point of this ramble is
 
It is. And it's reality. I was actually referred for an asd and adhd assessment. When I read the letter from the asd assessment she'd written - sonething like - has a diagnosis of eupd but they're questioning if really it's ptsd or asd. I actually don't fit the criteria for bpd and have never had a full assessment so where is that diagnosis coming from (other than female who is suicidal and self harming). I was definitely surprised to see ptsd on there. Not that it might not be accurate but that it hadn't been discussed wuth me.
Anyways not sure what the point of this ramble is
Thank you for sharing, I'm sure others also can relate to this. I had the same with BPD and CPTSD, none of the private therapists think I have BPD.
 

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