I'm kind of surprised too, except it's simply going to come down to who replies, regardless of the general mix of the forum.

It seems like that to me too, Blue_Bird -- "mixed" gets thrown around more than it used to, often inappropriately. (Which got me to thinking and digging around the DSM-V changes. Turns out they have "lowered the bar". While I'm grateful of its recognition in BP II (it validates the utter hell of simultaneous extreme symptoms I had a very long bout of that went WAY beyond irritable depression or dysphoric hypomania), I'm also kind of dismayed. There is nothing on this earth like sustained simultaneous extremes. It is beyond horrid and really should retain its own distinction. Now, they've got "mixed-features specifier", which is to be having full criteria for one mood and 3 or more from the other pole. Excluded are symptoms common to each. In other words, one aspect can be subclinical(!) Personally, I think that's going too far.)

Aaaanyhow… I don't want to hijack… , BUT (to bring it back around), even in consideration of the changes it is overused. And yes, it typically is a description of BPD presentation that's getting labelled (incorrectly) that way.