I have two diagnoses - Bipolar Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder. Yet the professionals all seem to let the Bipolar overshadow the Borderline. Maybe because that's all they know how to treat.

Whenever I say I've been spending money again, they automatically think I'm going manic. What if I'm NOT manic? Right now, last week, I spent 2 weeks worth of my alloted money in 2 days. Does that mean I'm manic? I'm more depressed than I am manic. So then they go thinking I'm mixed.

But maybe I'm the only one remembering that spending money is also a criteria of Borderline Personality Disorder. Maybe it has absolutely nothing to do with a manic or mixed epsiode - maybe it's the Borderline.

How would we distinguish that? And does it matter? How would it be treated differently?