I was wondering about the self harm thing because i see that a lot on this forum for people with BP and not necessarily BPD, but DSM-V only lists self harm as a criteria for BPD and not for BP. It could be that the people with BP that self harm may not have BPD, but could have some BPD traits or features, but not the full disorder.

I don't really know, and i want to get it right, so i was going by the book (DSM). It could be that we have noticed self harm as a feature of BP, but DSM-V hasn't figured it our yet, maybe it will be in DSM-VI. I might handle it by leaving the slides how they are, but saying a side note that self-harm could be common to both disorders, but is not identified as officially part of BP.

Not sure what others think of that. It's important for me to teach this correctly because some of the people in the audience don't know this information, and are working with patients.

Not too sure

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