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Question by : Do I have Borderline Personality Disorder?
Well, I’ve always felt something was wrong with me. I have been depressed for the past 5 years. (I’m fifteen, going on sixteen now). I have taken many online tests, and every single one of them had one thing at the least in common; Borderline Personality Disorder. It always above 70% sure, highest was 92%.

A quote from a website:
“Borderline personality disorder is a condition in which people have long-term patterns of unstable or turbulent emotions, such as feelings about themselves and others.

These inner experiences often cause them to take impulsive actions and have chaotic relationships.
Causes, incidence, and risk factors

The causes of borderline personality disorder (BPD) are unknown. Genetic, family, and social factors are thought to play roles.

Risk factors for BPD include:

Abandonment in childhood or adolescence

Disrupted family life

Poor communication in the family

Sexual abuse”

I feel I fit the bill on this, abandoned and adopted, I can’t communicate well with my parents, I’m not good in relationships and if I do get into friendships I can’t always maintain them. I am emotionally, socially, and mentally broken in my opinion. I have low self esteem, I have been suicidal and I am over it, but think about death every day. I’m not here for you guys to tell me I need therapy and need to find help from others. I’m looking for your honest opinion on whether you think I am Borderline or an other sort of personality disorder. Thanks.

Best answer:

Answer by Carys
Reading things online is a bad idea. The thing is people read symptoms online and think they fit them perfectly, wrong. The internet does not explain how severe the symptoms have to be. Also the problem with personality disorders is that a lot of people can have “traits” not symptoms of the disorder but that does not mean they have a disorder personality. For it to be diagnosed as disorder you have to have full blown symptoms which are severe, severe enough to put you in hospital. Also you have to be over 18 years old due to a persons personality changing way up until your 20’s.

BPD is severe. I was diagnosed in January and its like living in hell, honestly. I have suffered through eating disorders, multiple suicide attempts, self harm on a daily basis, constant suicide thoughts, depression, severe anxiety, my mood switches constantly due to the smallest of things. Its like you are not in control of your body at all. The main symptoms in BPD are suicidal ideation (reoccurring thoughts and attempts) and self harm in some kind of way as well as fear of abandonment and unstable self image and instability of mood.

The abandonment issue (which is a main symptom), that isn’t just thinking oh please don’t leave me, its being so clingy and obsessive over someone. I have beaten my boyfriend in arguments, like punched, kicked, slapped him and even ripped his clothes off in a desperate attempt to make him stay with me. I have had images of me actually beating him until he is unconscious so he will not leave me.

I self harm every single day to the point most of them need stitches. I have tried to kill myself multiple times by overdoses, hanging and suffocating myself. I have had over eating, undereating and purging eating disorders, I abuse laxatives, make myself throw up, eat so much, cut my stomach because I feel so fat even though I am 2 stone underweight. I have beaten my boyfriend, random people in anger, smashed my phone and laptop, smashed up all my bedroom.

Understand what I mean by severe? Lol and thats just some things.

There is so many symptoms and they are so severe because of how unstable the person is. Best thing to help BPD is therapy, psychiatrist may use medications to help some symptoms but there is no specifc medication to help BPD symptoms because there is so many. Therapy like DBT are used, it has been proven to be the most successful in curing BPD. I’m in therapy for BPD and it helps me control my emotions a lot more.

Depends on the severity. If you are that worried you need to see your doctor, if they feel something is mentally wrong they will send you to a psychiatrist who is the only one who can diagnose borderline.

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