from about 16 on, i had been labeled as borderline. for years, i knew that never really fit me because from all the research i have done (and it has been a lot) about my symptoms, i never felt it was a fit for me but that nothing really has been diagnosis wise as there are so many overlapping symptoms, but nothing 100%.

i was scared to ask my psychiatrist until today if she thought i had borderline personality disorder (BPD). she said that she thought i had BPD, also with anxiety/OCD, but that i am on the dissociative spectrum (of BPD, i think she meant) but also that i have variations (which i took as i am not borderline technically because of the variations that don't fit into the DSM criteria). i have always had parts and always a lot of varying symptoms, so nothing really was all that consistent with me even years ago if someone was trying to actually diagnose me.

my question is for anyone with dissociative disorders (DDNOS or whichever it is now in Canada/the US), do you also carry the label of borderline personality disorder?

I am wondering how common it is to have both because i also read somewhere that dissociation in borderline personality disorder isn't really the same as one where you have parts....do those who have BPD experience parts, hear voices, etc.?