Struggling with BPD Diagnosis: To Label or Not to Label?

When my psychiatrist was very dismissive in giving me a diagnosis I started symptom checking online and a lot of my symptoms in my research brought me back to BPD so I did more research on that. And then it really resonated with me so I went back to my psychiatrist and asked her if she could do whatever test necessary to see if that's what I have she was dismissive again and diagnosed me with PTSD. So I didn't fully understand what BPD was so I went on YouTube and there was this one person that explained it really well. I end up taking notes of each of the criteria and how they explain what it was and then writing a definition in my own words of each criteria. The next thing I'm going to do is take that list that I fully resonate with and make a list of 10 experiences per item of criteria where I personally felt I met that criteria and I'm going to put a time stamp on each experience to prove that it's chronic. And then I'm going to find a new psychiatrist because personally I do self diagnose I do say I have it but if a psychiatrist is not willing to say I do then I want them to explain to me what my symptoms actually are because I know it's more than just PTSD. I would say based on what you said you can definitely self diagnose. And you don't have to fight for a diagnosis as long as your getting proper treatment for it I feel like that's what's important.

I’d say yes, you can say you struggle with BPD, because it’s the symptoms and struggles of BPD that make it BPD, not the label or a diagnosis.