I have PTSD and borderline traits. I really do have borderline traits. My mother is borderline. But I got dxed with borderline traits after I turned fifty. Right before my period. Go figure.

When I was stoically and silently planning my suicide, I had PTSD. Now that I am shrieking for help I am GAD or borderline.

Even I do the gender stereotype. I think of my dad as PTSD and my mom as borderline. They had very similar traits. Daddy got in fights sometimes. Mom engaged in *****ery.

Even my own symptoms, I think of falling into a fight stance as PTSD and crying hysterically as borderline. These are cultural and gender stereotype distinctions. borderline fight and ptsd cries too.

I think of borderline as "childhood onset ptsd" meaning ptsd plus insecure attachment to mother plus developmental issues. I don't know about you but my development was interrupted at times of severe trauma.

Another way I look at my own situation is that I am on the cusp of borderline and PTSD.

When a staff split around me, some folks said that made me borderline. The staff was in two camps whether I eas there or not. O think. Thank dogs I dont have to worry about whose projecting on whom. I didn't study that headachey crap for a reason.

I dont feel insulted by being told about my borderlineness where It really appears. Eg I cling at the end of conversations and sessions. I get angry or disgruntled at discharge.

I do hate to have someone poi.t out to me that I am clinging while I'm clinging or angry while am angry. But so does anyone with manners.

Anyway, thats my ramble.