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BPD and bipolar can be confused for each other or co-exist. I know that I have borderline traits but I don't meet criteria for dx. I am certain that DBT, standard treatment for BPD is helpful for bipolar as well and you can pursue it while exploring the dx.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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