Can BPD be misdiagnosed?
BPD can also often be misdiagnosed because it can be difficult for practitioners to differentiate BPD from mood disorders, such as major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder.
Can men be misdiagnosed as antisocial personality disorder?
She mentions that men with BPD are often misdiagnosed as having Antisocial Personality Disorder when their BPD symptoms spiral out of control. Because of the vague diagnostic criteria, it’s hard for clinicians to get a Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosis right all of the time.
Is borderline personality disorder often misdiagnosed as bipolar disorder?
Borderline Personality Disorder is a complicated psychiatric disorder, and is often misdiagnosed. While there’s no national data available to show how often the disorder is mistaken for another psychiatric disorder, there’s at least one study that shows how often it’s misdiagnosed as Bipolar Disorder.
What does it feel like to live with BPD?
Finally, someone understood me and, even more, I finally understood myself. People who have survived complex trauma, especially the trauma of sexual abuse, often display similar symptoms as those who live with BPD. Common symptoms include severe depression, mood swings, anger, extreme feelings of loneliness and anxiety.
What are the signs of BPD?
With BPD, there can also be a lot of “affective instability” or repeated, rapid, and abrupt shifts in mood — which may be explained by BPD, another mental illness, or both, she says. ( 6)
Is it BPD or is it anxiety?
Although one of the symptoms of BPD is anxiety, between 75 and 90 percent of people with BPD also meet criteria for at least one type of anxiety disorder, such as social anxiety disorder and panic disorder.
Is there a connection between BPD and substance use disorder?
Because impulsivity is one of the symptoms of BPD, substance use disorder is often a comorbidity of the condition. Between 14 and 72 percent of people with BPD will also have a substance use disorder.