I only started showing a nice, smothe bipolar sinus curve after I started being medicated. Until then I had a very jagged mood profile, being kind of labile enven when "normal" which looked very borderline. On medications, this started to smoothe out and became the nice, smooth up and down (more or less) pattern, because the dysphoric nonscense that kicked in at both extremes died off. Now that the anxiety is being handled, it's even smoother. Both BP and BPD have what I would call a lot of "static" from the effects of the disorders, the social and relational fallouts that can lead to problems sorting out what in the h/&% is causing what. And of course, one can have both. HUGGS