How does Dissociative Identity Disorder relate to Borderline Personality Disorder?

How does Dissociative Identity Disorder relate to Borderline Personality Disorder?

in borderline you create persona's knowingly and you "become" like someone or something you want to be in different situations or environments. With DID it's not a form of creation and the personalities usually are not consciously there for the host. They are not integrated at all with the host personality. With borderline it's a full manifestation of a conscious personality though it is never stable.

They do not relate much at all. I read this huge article about the difference but I can't find it. When I do or even can find it I will post it for you.

I think on the surface, they can apper similar, but there are differences. I think volatile has a good example of a difference. One thing, is that they dissociate--but in borderline it's more like they are spacing out. I'm not quite sure how that works with DID. One thing that is similar is that, more often than not, there's been some abuse and/or chaos in their lives. The other day, I googled "borderline personality disorder vs. DID" and quite a lot of stuff came up.

p.s. I have borderline personality disorder, and I've had people think I had DID, saying that I was like two different in the same body, that there was "another part of" me that was an emotional cripple, that I was always changing, asking me "Whatever happened to that good girl I used to know?" or making comments like, "That's not the woman I know," etc.

I also doubted whether I have BPD or DID. But I want to think it's DID, and the BPD was something fake. Because i do have a stable sense of self, now I do. Although some good intentioned but not too good psychologist once diagnosed me with BPD...I don't relate to BPD so much, apart from the identity disturbance. I never attempted suicide, I never did drugs, or things like that (but i've been quite wild in another senses...specially the sexual one, which is quite fun since i'm not very sexual but when i was 16 i used sex as a way to self-destruct, i really wanted to dissappear!) But like I've stated in another posts in the Borderline fórum, I don't think having a wild, bad year counts as BPD. My behaviour those years was quite BPD, and I even had a bit of an eating disorder. But I'm not borderline, for God's sake. Maybe everything would be easier if I was.

Can BPD and DID overlap?

Yes, BPD and DID can overlap. They are conceptualized as being in two different diagnostic categories for DSM purposes, so to use the DSM lingo, you can have features of either, both or neither.

do you mean how are the two similar to each other...

some people with borderline personality disorder also have symptoms of altered personality states...ego states, introjects, fragmentation of states of mind that are noticeable (the adult, parent and child parts of self) and unstable moods swings that change frequently

some borderline people also have unstable relationships, difficulty making friends/keeping friends/ rocky intimate relationships.

some people with borderline personality disorder have low self image/low self esteme/low self worth...

some people with borderline personality disorder have episodes of psychosis (retreating into internalized worlds where they lose touch with reality, expect reality to be the same as their internal world/delusional thoughts/delusional behaviors/ hallucinations/ paranoia/...)

some people with borderline personality disorder have trouble with memories/ remembering things...

with DID....

the person has a special type of alternate personalities/altered states of mind.

some people with DID have introjects/ego states/adult, parent child type fragmentation besides having the DID type alters that fit the diagnostic criteria.

some people with DID have internal worlds

some people with DID have unstable mood swings.

some people with DID have low self esteem/low self worth/low self image...

some people with DID have unstable relationships with family friends and intimate partners. Some have trouble making and keeping friends.

some people with DID have trouble with episodes of psychosis (hallucinations, retreating into their internal worlds/delusional thought/delusional behaviors...)

people with DID have memory problems.