I think borderline personality disorder can mimic rapid cycling. I was originally diagnosed in the opposite order. Borderline personality then discovered that that was a misdiagnosis and they changed it to BP. It's just a label. What you need to focus on is managing the symptoms. If you identify with the symptoms of BP more then hang around on this forum. We're certainly not asking you to leave

I think that we all from time to time, have patterns of cognitive distortion. There are definite areas in my life when things happen and it's an "all or nothing" type of thinking that I have to seriously work through.

I think it changes according to our circumstances. I'm currently working on personalisation and blame with my psychologist. Have a read of this article that explains patterns of distortion:

http://www.pacwrc.pitt.edu/curriculu...gAbtThnkng.pdf