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I'm just trying to seperate what BPD is as opposed to the other issues my friend has.

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Good luck with that!

I guess I could give a little more help than that to you:

Let's see...I believe the symptoms of BPD listed are fairly accurate, but as I have said many times, there are varying degrees of intensity of each symptom, and not every borderline experiences every symptom.

Also, there are some cross-over symptoms that occur when one suffers from more than one illness (meaning some of the same symptoms can occur with different illnesses).

As well, one illness can trigger symptoms of another illness, making it almost impossible to separate one from the other.

The " 'possibly' BPD" idea came from her doctor, right? Because with all those illnesses attributed to her, her head must be spinning.

I'm guessing her docs are still trying to figure out if she really does suffer from all of these, or just one or two. After all, many of these symptoms overlap as well, especially PTSD and Anxiety. They can also cause the lashing out you have described.

Please be as patient as you can. These extreme behaviours are usually the result of a trigger and a trigger could be something as simple as a word, or a picture or even a smell or a perceived look. It could be anything!

What I do know is that when I freak out like that, it generally has little to do with what is actually happening at the moment, and more to do with what has been brought up, emotionally, for me from the subject at hand.

Hope this makes some sense. Oh, yeah, making sense to others is extremely difficult, too.