I recently left an inpatient PTSD program and I'm now in partial. I've been IP 6 times in the last 14 months and done PHP twice. The program I'm in now is new to me. The pdoc who evaluated me on my first day spent less than 5 minutes with me before diagnosing me with BPD. I've had a dx of BD from my regular pdoc since last October after a few months as "episodic mood disorder NOS."

I'm very confused now and the PHP pdoc is telling me I need mood stabilizers either way so it doesn't matter. It matters to me because I want to understand my condition and how it is controlled.

Has anyone else been told they are one, only to be told later that they are the other? How do you deal with it? I'm not sure anymore that I can look at myself objectively and say that the traits of one disorder or another definitely do or don't describe me.