My Support Forums - View Single Post - Is complex PTSD and borderline personality disorders the same thing

*Beth* · May 04, 2022 at 09:23 PM

I definitely have cptsd and although a few therapists over all the years of my mental health treatment have suggested that I have some "BPD traits" I have never been dx'ed with BPD (and I know I don't have it).

It angers me when a mental healthcare person refers to cptsd or ptsd and bpd as the same thing. Why is it almost always women that they say have bpd? My husband is a Vietnam vet with ptsd - no one has ever told him that he has bpd or bpd traits, even though he has major anger problems. But me, a woman who grew up in an extremely violent and abusive home - I have anger issues, so I'm told now and then that I have bpd "traits." What's that all about?

Sorry to get on a rant , but the whole thing really burns my butt.