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Old Dec 09, 2014, 10:53 AM
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Originally Posted by chickenfoot View Post
A psychiatrist told me that borderline personality disorder meant bordering on the psychotic and neurotic. I don't think you can be bordering on psychotic, you either are or you aren't. That's where quasi-psychotic symptoms come in, which are a big part of personality disorders such as BPD and schizotypal personality disorder.
In my country MH professionals, including pdocs, sometimes use a concept which translates to "borderline psychotic" but it has nothing to do with BPD. It just means you have symptoms of psychosis but not enough to be labeled psychotic.