Babs, the depression/bpII thing is a recent phenomenon and what bpII "meant" 10 years ago is different from today. I was diagnosed "borderline" in the 1970's but it had nothing whatsoever to do with what it means now. These things change over time. It's still not clear where the "line" is or how to treat them, etc. Look at this study from just August of 2006:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q..._uids=16682104

I'd try to change my perspective to feeling "thrilled" that we live in a time where medicine is learning some of the things they didn't know before, so quickly. My mother died in 1954 of a brain tumor, the same year they began to figure out radiology for brain tumors (but she'd had it since 1948 so it was too late for her). Everytime I have a CT scan or MRI I wish that they'd been invented in time for my mother.