I've known I've had PTSD for a long time but never looked at it as a separate thing. I've known that my dysfunctional, tramatic childhood and abandonment by my boyfriend as a young adult caused my BPD...there's no way around that fact, but the T now says that it's severe enough that I need to look at it in it's own light. That it may have caused or contributed to other things that but it is also an issue in itself..... Lucky me...