I started out with a BPD diagnosis and got really serious about treatment--years of therapy, medication, and two whole rounds of DBT. My current p-doc and the last several therapists I have had have said they no longer see that in me.

Then I later got the BP diagnosis, and I guess I always will have that. I am now working through a workbook on DBT for bipolars with my therapist, and the book says that some clinicians think the two diagnoses are on a continuum, that is, they are the same thing, but just a matter of degree.....However, I'm not convinced of that. But what is definitely true is that the two Dx's have many of the same symptoms in common. DBT was originally designed for BPD, but is now used for BP and some other disorders.

Yes, I'm afraid that there is more stigma to BPD than to BP, but, that said, it CAN be treated and some folks are now daring to say "cured." The key, I think, is staying in therapy and working with the p-docs. It isn't a fatal, horrible thing, albeit upsetting to hear as a diagnosis. I was considered to be a high-functioning BPD. I suspect you are, too, from what you said. You're still our "suga," regardless!