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Originally Posted by tiger8
Thanks... this says "If such rapid emotional shifts are extreme, most psychiatrists start to think of a different diagnosis: borderline personality disorder"
Why?
Is it like, bipolar is about a mood state that's simply just there, and borderline is about not regulating emotions well due to whatever reasons? |
Borderline mood swings are more a less a triggered response to situations whereas bipolar mood swings automatically happens. There are others that will argue though that there are no other mood swings other than rapid cycling when it comes to bipolar cycling.
But along with borderline switchy mood swings is the borderline thinking: all or nothing thinking, fear of abandonment....
I live with ultra-rapid cycles that are automatic in nature that you can set a clock with...every 10 days a complete set of cycles full circle.
But I also deal with BPD and DID mood swings depending on the Other that's present.
They use the same meds to treat both conditions, BPD and BD. So hey...it works!
