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Originally Posted by ultramar
For one thing, there's a big difference between a constant roller coaster ride, up, down, up, down, stuff in between, as intense reactions to what's going on in one's environment and long, pervasive moods. In some ways, perhaps one is more of a 'reaction to triggers' and the other more of a case of 'mood.' There's a big difference between maintaining, more or less, the same 'mood' over a long period of time, and fluctuating between many moods (or reactions) over a very short period of time. It's just very different.
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IMHO not very different at all. Take for example a bipolar stuck in the midst of a "mixed" episode. There does not have to be any manic or very little if any, just irritability and ups and downs, often appearing they are triggered by events. And as pointed out to some it makes no difference how the mood swings are triggered, we are still talking about mood swings. And there are some who are suggesting any mood swing involves changes in the thyroids as indicated by recent thyroid studies with BPD that show changes similar to bipolar suggesting there is some chemical play here. Again many seem to feel the similarities are greater then the differences.
Certainly greater then any similarities BPD has with any personalty disorder. I for one doubt I could play the devils advocate to support BPD has more in common with ASPD then with Mood Disorder. BPD just has so much more in common with mood disorders then any personality disorder!