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Originally Posted by doglover1979
You can have BPD, Bipolar and ADHD all at the same time. I do 
I also have PTSD.
People often fit into more than one box when it comes to mental health. Especially for BPD people, its not unusual at all to have more than one diagnosis. It's part of what makes personality disorders so complicated to treat. |
Wow...Poor thing! What a maze of symptoms that is to deal with! I'm sorry you have to manage all of that!
I will not be certain of anything until I give my therapist and pdoc time to figure me out. I do have some things figured out but only time and med trials will help to get me the correct diagnoses. Notice how I say diagnoses (pleural). I have more than one dx but you are so right that so many mental illnesses and disorders all have so much overlap as far as symptoms.
Psychiatry is not like physical medicine. There are not the tests there to scientificly rule in or out a diagnosis. The whole crux of psychiatry is about studying appearances and behavior. The DSM's are made by docs descriptions. I hope Spect Imaging advances so mental disorders can be measured correctly. Right now we are stuck with hoping doctor's guesses are correct. Sad, but true.