In total agreement, some overlap in symptoms, but extremely different disorders.
Some doctors will grasp at any straw to pigeon hole it seems but save a few minor details of overlap BPD even in the media is portrayed very differently to PTSD. My advice would be to research, check and double check symptoms; emotional and physical.
With respect, my first hand and studied experience of BPD would preclude them from being capable of taking trauma onboard as they are devoid of being capable of both true feeling and a developed personality outside of their own head, they do not empathize with real emotion. By this I mean external events do not affect them as a BPD does not connect as such, but they may choose to let an emotion, often witnessed rather than experienced, be a part of the 'personality'. It is filed away in a menu listing to be scrolled through when a relevant and maybe more empathic emotion is relevant for given scenario.
In contrast a PTSD has a very real reaction felt deep inside the psyche with little choice or control over the emotional and physical associations until some experience is gained of the condition.
A BPD can switch a chosen emotion on and off virtually at will to suit circumstance like an actor, usually to win friends, gain validation or sympathy, a very sycophantic disorder in effect. They often do not know they do it, but being devoid of emotional attachment that is to be expected. PTSD certainly cannot be controlled at this level and is detrimental to a fully formed, or forming, strong emotionally functioning personality that has to re-evaluate and re-balance as a result of trauma.
I have no wish to offend and I speak only from my own research and experience.
Dania x
