I was diagnosed with BPD at one point, even though the only symptoms that fit their criteria was the history of being abused as a child, and the fact that I at one time had an eating disorder. I was suicidal - but I brought myself in, so to them I was just attention-seeking.

They put me through a DBT program that was months long and not as helpful as CBT is for me, and then turfed me to a BPD specialist, who tested me, saw me for a month or two, and then said that I definitely wasn't BPD, I had a psychotic disorder, and she couldn't help me. She dropped me without referring me to anyone else, and I just floated through my first year of university completely psychotic until the school psychiatrist finally saw me and referred me to my current program, and I've never had a better pdoc. She deals with psychotic illnesses only.