Thank you everyone for replying.

Well, diagnosis is pretty important for me as I'm military and now I'm being chaptered out of service after 9 years.

The MD's say Bipolar, and I have responded to the medication cocktail I'm on for BP, but the military is kicking me out for Borderline Personality Disorder because the therapist says I'm BPD and the MD's are wrong.

I feel a deep sense of shame, especially as the therapist is implying that I have lied and created the BP diagnosis out of thin air. It's hard to accept the DX, though I know it is true, especially when I'm told by the therapist that 'there's nothing wrong with you but an inflexible personality'.

I was wondering if this type of confusion tends to be typical for BP DX.

In the end you all are right though, I have responded to med treatment for BP and at least I know that.

Thank you.