Bipolar & BPD??

Hi I'im Becky, I totally see where your coming from.  My dad left me when I was 5 yrs old, and didnt come back into the picture until I was 18 and he wanted the same respect you'd give a father thats been there for years.  I have to say all threw high school I wanted to be loved be any and every guy who came along.  I got pregnant at 16 had my beautiful son 2 months after I turned 17.  Wow what a rollercoaster. I had seizures growing up, I out grew them around the age of 14.  And was molested at the age of 3 1/2.  So I def. think that all had a play on my Bi-Polar now. I always new something just was wrong growing up.  The doctors told me I was just a depressed person.  Well it took 2 years ago my suicide attempt that a doctor told me I was BP.  I was thankful and lost all at the same time that I had a name to my maddness.  If you look around the internet there are little test's that you can take to kinds see if you think you have the BP, and it helps word things to your DR easier, thats what I did.  Yeah the meds work at times then they have to go back and adjust them.  It's hard to think I will be on them for the rest of my life.  Not to mention I lost my job due to calling off to much at work, with having a hard time going in to work or the panic attacks would take over right before I had to leave.  But what do you do but keep going to thew therapist, it does help to talk to someone else other than family * friends.  If you ever need to talk Im on here....BEC

I've worked in MH for nearly 4 years now as an administrative person.  I've done transcription and records and other things during those 4 years.  In having done so, I've been privy to a lot of diagnoses and combos the assorted pdocs tend to diagnose & what not.

In my years... it isn't uncommon for some to be diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder and have a Axis II (secondary issue) of Borderline Personality Disorder.  In fact, 1 particular pdoc I did transcription for typically diagnosed the 2 hand in hand.  Does that mean each person he diagnosed hand in hand had both?  Don't know but, I do know that he wasn't the only 1 of the assorted ones I've worked for that put the 2 together on a patient's diagnostic sheet.

This isn't meant to get you down.  If indeed your pdoc does diagnose as such - there are meds for the Bipolar and there are therapies for the Borderline.

There is something out there.  You just need to work with your pdoc and tdoc to figure out what the best thing is to help both and you overall in the process and then stick with it. 

It's a process but, it's a worthy process cause it's for you.

Good Luck :)

Just read in last weeks issue of Time magazine all the studies done on borderline and the results were very helpful to me..I have been posting on this website for a few months and knew nothing about borderline personality but it seems that many doctors are now recognizing this as a true and maybe treatable disorder on its on. Also as the other person said they have data now to show it can go hand in hand with BP. The criteria absolutely fit my boyfriend and now I know why all of the BP issues didn't fit him exactly (such as depression ongoing) I was happy to read this article and data presented in a national mag because it appears to be that docs just called everything they couldn't diagnose as borderline personality. Any help on this? Now maybe there will be some discussion  on this. If the professional case worker could let me know more on their experience with this it would be great.  At this time I am away from my boyfriend with my daughter but I have to make a decision on whether to give him up completely or not. Thanks for all the input and as always I wish the best for everyone out there.