How is Borderline personality disorder (BPD) diagnosed?
How Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is diagnosed: tests, specialists and the diagnostic journey, told by patients and reviewed against medical sources.
BPD has to be diagnosed by a professional psychologist or psychiatrist. There are a number of "symptoms" that are definitive to BPD but that also overlap with other mental illnesses such as depression and bipolar disorder, so those have to be ruled out.
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My signs began showing as a teenager. The impulsivity, risky behavior, drug use. I didn't care for consequences even though they have affected me now as an adult. I was first diagnosed with Bipolar and treated for that. I went many years trying diffe...