Borderline and silent borderline?

Hey,

So you mean there is Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder, and this is divided into two types, the Impulsive Type and the Borderline Type.

So there are not two types of borderline personality disorder but of emotionally unstable personality disorder, borderline personality disorder is one type of it.

So there are several subtypes of borderline:

• Discouraged: Fears of abandonment, neediness, emotional mood swings
• Impulsive borderline personality disorder: binge eating, risky and aggressive behavior
• Petulant Borderliner: unpredictable mood swings, passive aggressiveness and the need to be in control
• Self-destructive borderliner: Participation in self-harming and abusive behavior

And the discouraged person is often seen as the silent borderliner. A distinction is often made between the silent borderliner and the person who often turns everything inward.

• You don't notice their mood swings
• You don't see if they split (switch between love and hate)
• They direct their anger at themselves rather than at others

Borderliners are certainly more likely to engage in therapy, but the therapy is certainly disrupted due to the symptoms; people with a narcissistic personality disorder often do not engage in therapy.

Diagnosing a personality disorder often requires a very long diagnostic process; there are tests that are very long and contain many questions.

And since you're only 17, the diagnosis is even more difficult, since personality disorders aren't diagnosed until after 18 anyway. More and more psychiatrists and others are also increasingly of the opinion that personality disorders like borderline personality disorder shouldn't be diagnosed before the age of 25. That's why I'm cautious at 17.

And yes, the symptoms you described above could sound like borderline personality disorder, but as she says, thorough diagnostics are important.

For example, your symptoms may also be due to the following:

• self-harming behavior/suicidal thoughts: depression/PTSD
• Black and white thinking: depression
• Empty feeling: depression
• I often have dissociations for no reason: PTSD, with PTSD dissociations occur
• Self-harm during arguments: Depression/PTSD

But of course, as your therapist says, symptoms also point to BPD:

1. Fear of loss/fear of commitment: can also be caused by PTSD or depression
2. Impulsivity or extreme uncontrolled outbursts of anger: here too but also depression and PTSD
3. Self-harming behavior/suicidal thoughts: also in the other
4. Threats of suicide/self-harm during arguments: The threats of suicide indicate this. However, they can also be found in people without BPD.
5. Negative self-image of myself, which is also fluctuating
6. Empty feeling: can be three in all
7. I often change my perspective on my goals and my future: with BPS, this also falls under point 5.
8. I have an incredible fear of being alone (which manifests itself in extreme panic attacks), but I cannot be with people for long periods of time: this could also be caused by the others, but also by the BPS
9. I often have dissociations without reason: in BPD, the severe dissociative symptoms occur under stress, in addition, in BPD there is also a mini-psychosis

But I would first listen to your therapist, she has studied it and has the knowledge.

But you can also have all three, which is called "comorbidity" diseases that often occur together, in BPD it is usually:

• PTSD
• depression
• Anxiety disorders
• Bipolar disorder
• ADHD

Feel free to ask me more so I can add more.

I have my knowledge because I have diagnoses and have spent a lot of time researching them. My diagnoses: Combined Personality Disorder with Accentuation (I have several: Borderline Personality Disorder, Anxious-Avoidant Personality Disorder, Dependent Personality Disorder, Subclinical Narcissistic Personality Disorder). I also have severe depression, CPTSD, ADHD, and generalized anxiety disorder.

But it was a long road to get there, misdiagnosis of schizophrenia is something else.

LG