First off, personality is a complicated thing, being secondary to your nature (natural tendencies).

Especially when it comes to personality, it is widely recognised that a categorical approach to personality is problematic. That it is easier for clinicians to work with is, as I see it, questionable.

It is very well possible that the DSM-6 will do away with the ten personality disorder categories and the clustering of these.

Many of us with BP might have problems which transcend all clusters. Some clusters may be more primary than others (some problems being based on others). Anxiety disorders, in turn, may be secondary to personality problems.

Who of you has many or all of the borderline personality traits?

Do you think it is helpful to make a distinction between personality problems and BP?

Do you have BP-1 or BP-2, or some other related, psychotic disorder? Do you have any anxiety disorders or anxiety-related personality disorder (e.g. OCD or avoidant/dependent personality)?

Do you think your borderline personality does best describe your most basic personality problems or is another personality disorder the cause of your borderline traits, as far as you can tell?

Do you use anything from (any type of) psychotherapy to deal with your problems?

When I don't have any "purely" BP problems, mania or depression, when stable, I tend to "lose control without really losing control" mostly sabotaging my functioning directly, or indirectly by hurting or endangering others or sabotaging a relationship.

Currently I do it, for example, by not calling my psychiatrist for a script for my antipsychotic. I know this is not purely avoidance. I am more often late for meetings/appointments. This is not social anxiety (I have more of narcissistic personality, which, being clustered with BPD, is not surprising).

I only do thinks impulsively and have great difficulty with routine (not the type that eventually causes mild depression through understimulation, but anxiety) and (subconsciously at the time) sabotage it. That's why I run my own company providing one service to many, so as to have much freedom to switch between different activities.

Basically, when there is no "natural" personal disaster, and because of it, a lack of felt purpose or challenge, direction, a problem to fix, "boredom" anxiety, I create it myself.

I think a borderline personality in itself is healthy, makes psychotic problems less severe, but not a "disordered" type where it is not consciously used and controlled, leading to "loss of control".

As many/some of you may know by now, I have been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, BP type.

Hope to hear your stories!