Can a crisis trigger BPD?

Hi everyone

Usually I post on the PTSD forum but something a parental stress line volunteer said to me years ago right after I told my ex husband to move out is bothering me today.

I have read that BPD is described as having third degree burns all over your body.

Well, this parental stress line volunteer described me as that way years ago.

Shortly after that I started 7 years of therapy to treat a nonspecific personality disorder.

I was 29 or 30 at the time.

I had seen a therapist as a teenager but the subject of bpd or any personality disorder never came up. I think I was billed as adolescent identity disorder for the insurance, which does have echoes of bpd.

Now my official diagnosis is PTSD, however when I first started seeing a psychiatrist I was treated for C-PTSD which I have read is similar to BPD. Also I was treated for some traits of BPD but BPD has never shown up on any medical record anywhere.

What I am marveling at is it possible that the stress of my divorce made me develop those BPD traits? I didn't think that's how BPD was generated, I thought it showed up much earlier...

often times bpd is diagnosed when it is actually ptsd. trauma in childhood is many times a precursor for developing a personality disorder later in life. i dont agree that crisis would trigger bpd, bpd would already have to be part of someones makeup and the crisis would just intensify or manifest latent traits that were not so obvious before.

I was diagnosed with ptsd, not bpd. However the description this person gave matched the description of bpd, which is what got my attention. I think the crisis must have intensified my disorder traits. That was a decade ago, but I will never forget it.