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I am curious if anyone who has had a partner with PTSD showed signs and symptoms of bpd?
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Relationship Does It Look Like Your Partners Show Signs Of Bpd
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desiderata310
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you mean borderline personality disorder?
It's not unusual for those to be co-morbid. It's also not unusual to be misdiagnosed with borderline.
What is C-PTSD?
This page actually has a pretty good breakdown.
It's not unusual for those to be co-morbid. It's also not unusual to be misdiagnosed with borderline.
What is C-PTSD?
This page actually has a pretty good breakdown.
I have both Borderline Personality Disorder and PTSD.
I'm curious as to why you're asking this question? Do you think your partner has it?
Remember that in order to be considered to have BPD you have to have 5 of the 8 diagnostic criteria. It is not about her behaviour (I say "her" because of course men do get it as well, but due to the way our brains work, more women are diagnosed than men) it is based on how she feels. Which is why nobody but a psychiatrist can diagnose.
Lots of people display BPD traits (fear of abandonment, self-harm etc) BUT stand alone features cannot make someone BPD. Just because a person self-harms doesn't make them Borderline. Just because someone behaves impulsively does not make them Borderline. Just because someone has mood swings, fear of abandonment etc doesn't make them borderline. Put them all together and yes, there' a good chance but ONLY a psychiatrist can give someone a diagnosis.
I would be EXCEPTIONALLY wary of labelling your loved one as BPD. It is a very stigmatised disorder, she will not find much help. It cannot be controlled with drugs and lots of the "help" she will be given will make her feel worse. The ore you google it, the more horrible stuff you will find about what awful people we are... it breaks my heart sometimes, makes me feel suicidal, unwanted and worthless. My therapist has told me "stop googling it J, just trust what I'm telling you. I don't see you that way. That's not my experience of you"
If you feel there is something VERY wrong with your loved one, please talk to them and encourage them to get help but do not plant the idea of BPD in her mind. You cannot diagnose based on google searches.
If she does get an official diagnosis, I would be happy to talk to her/him if you point them my way.
I'm curious as to why you're asking this question? Do you think your partner has it?
Remember that in order to be considered to have BPD you have to have 5 of the 8 diagnostic criteria. It is not about her behaviour (I say "her" because of course men do get it as well, but due to the way our brains work, more women are diagnosed than men) it is based on how she feels. Which is why nobody but a psychiatrist can diagnose.
Lots of people display BPD traits (fear of abandonment, self-harm etc) BUT stand alone features cannot make someone BPD. Just because a person self-harms doesn't make them Borderline. Just because someone behaves impulsively does not make them Borderline. Just because someone has mood swings, fear of abandonment etc doesn't make them borderline. Put them all together and yes, there' a good chance but ONLY a psychiatrist can give someone a diagnosis.
I would be EXCEPTIONALLY wary of labelling your loved one as BPD. It is a very stigmatised disorder, she will not find much help. It cannot be controlled with drugs and lots of the "help" she will be given will make her feel worse. The ore you google it, the more horrible stuff you will find about what awful people we are... it breaks my heart sometimes, makes me feel suicidal, unwanted and worthless. My therapist has told me "stop googling it J, just trust what I'm telling you. I don't see you that way. That's not my experience of you"
If you feel there is something VERY wrong with your loved one, please talk to them and encourage them to get help but do not plant the idea of BPD in her mind. You cannot diagnose based on google searches.
If she does get an official diagnosis, I would be happy to talk to her/him if you point them my way.
Gs172003
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Don't Google anything. Dr Google is a liar.
It feels like you're just trolling us at this point.
The woman was a friend who ended the friendship many months ago after a volatile friendship in which she threatened a restraining order on you at one point.
She had adult rape trauma. You previously posted about BPD and were told that it's not good to diagnose people as borderline. You are not a doctor, you are unqualified to be labeling anyone as such.
Yet you repeatedly come back and try to get support for your borderline hypothesis.
I think that there may be another disorder at play but it's not in her.
Please move on. As another person said in your previous posts, this is starting to feel like stalking.
This woman does not deserve to be treated this way. It's INCREDIBLY harmful to label someone as BPD. You aren't helping her. You're actually hurting her by doing all of this.
Please just stop. I say this as someone who has been stalked before and has had false "diagnosises" pinned on me by people who have no medical or counseling degree, simply based on their woefully inadequate social perception of a disorder.
The woman was a friend who ended the friendship many months ago after a volatile friendship in which she threatened a restraining order on you at one point.
She had adult rape trauma. You previously posted about BPD and were told that it's not good to diagnose people as borderline. You are not a doctor, you are unqualified to be labeling anyone as such.
Yet you repeatedly come back and try to get support for your borderline hypothesis.
I think that there may be another disorder at play but it's not in her.
Please move on. As another person said in your previous posts, this is starting to feel like stalking.
This woman does not deserve to be treated this way. It's INCREDIBLY harmful to label someone as BPD. You aren't helping her. You're actually hurting her by doing all of this.
Please just stop. I say this as someone who has been stalked before and has had false "diagnosises" pinned on me by people who have no medical or counseling degree, simply based on their woefully inadequate social perception of a disorder.
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I am doing and will be doing more for mental health and PTSD than you or anyone on this site have or will ever do. When you start creating technology and applications to help with mental health than you and others on this site can bad mouth me for educating myself
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I would never label anyone that is not who I am and I hate being labeled myself. Something didn't seem right last time I saw her and her behavior seemed more extreme and different than PTSD
Gs172003
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Holy crap is this the same person??
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desiderata310
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OH you mean she was triggered.
Derp.Guess what? That's just pain old PTSD aaaand it sucks so back off.
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In future folks, hit the report button - tagging me or any staff member isn't going to be responded to as quickly as a report.
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