Female Aspies= Borderline personality disorder??

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Just as a general comment on meltdowns and being mis-dignosed....

Women often go undiagnosed with Autism/Asperger’s. I would recommend reading up in this area more to see if you fit this area ie such as reading the book "Asperger Girls" or other such works.

Also, try to observe what triggers the meltdowns? Is it something within the family or environment? Once you know the triggers you can be more cognizant of one pending and try to relax or control more through various methods.

From my own negative experiences with psychologists, I think I was being misdiagnosed and the treatments were not good though I rarely took medications other than Ritalin and that was for a brief time.

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Also, it is a common trend for women to perceive misdiagnosed which is really sad and says something about our society more.....

I would also say for women to trust their instincts and if a diagnosis appears incorrect to get another; most likely from a person who deals from birth handicaps and /or autism specifically. I think psychologists/ social works are not commonly trained in these topics enough to have proper perspectives.

Hui, I have my old diagnoses again!

I was by a new psychiatrist today, because I wanted to have something for my sleepdisturbance.
And he talked with me for nearly an hour and he couldn't find any Borderline behaviour in me and didn't even think that I could have something like this. He meant that I don't act at all like this.

He also thought that I could have Bipolar (I even didn't mantioned it, that I think that way, but just my behaviour and what I described), but that it's not really clear now because of my other stressors I have at the moment and that we have to wait now and just diagnosed depressions at the moment and wants to wait and see.
He first thought about giving me lithium, but because I have an operation soon and also he wants to wait in how far my depressions get better when I have less stress and so on, he first wants to wait and wants to see me again in 4 weeks.
But he supscribed me agomelatonine for the moment.

He also didn't diagnose me with a traumadiagnosis at the moment, because he first want's to see how my symptoms develop without getting triggered all the time anymore. I clearly have and had those symptoms but it's not clear how they will develop far away from the environment that triggered me after the trauma for nearly two years.
I have the feeling he is very carefull in diagnosing and stuff and I like that.

Oh man, I'm totally happy now!

I was diagnosed with borderline once in my youth, but I do have some sort of cyclic mood disorder as well as OCD and moderate to severe ASD and ADD. I have to take several meds just to keep me functional. It took 6 years of agonizing medicine adjusting to get the right combo.
Geodon -mood stabilizer
Zoloft -OCD, depression
Adderall- ADD and helps with autistic inertia
Carbatrol-eplepsy and helps as a mood stabilizer as well.

However, unlike true bipolar, I can recognize when I am manic and can take steps to stablize my mood but I dont experience alot of other symptoms of borderline PD, like people with borderline always feel as though they are the victim even when they are not being victimzed. A person with BPD will turn just about any situation, conversation etc into perceiving they are somehow a victim It is a perceptional disorder that has wild mood swings. Example, my half sister has BPD, so I know this all too well. She gets BPD from her father's side, they act nearly identical.
Anyway, on with the example, Mom was talking about buying a guest cottage for my sister to stay in when she came to visit so she and her husband can have some privacy and have space without our animals which she is allergic to.
Mom told her this, and her responce was startling..."look G, she is going to stick us out back!"
That was not my mother's intentions at all, but my sister percieved that mom was wanting to build her a guest cottage to keep her away from family functions. You also cant argue logicly with a person who thinks like this. Everything you say and do will be used against you.

Jojo

I'm currently going through the diagnostic process...I wonder if they will conclude the same about me. :S

The distinction between Autism, Bi-Polar Disorder, Schizophrenia, OCD, ADHD and Borderline Personality Disorder is not clear-cut.

There's a significant overlap in symptoms and genetic correlation between each of these "disorders". Co-morbidity is also very common.

Personally, I lean towards the notion that Autism, Bi-Polar Disorder, Schizophrenia, OCD, ADHD and Borderline Personality Disorder are not individual conditions but as different expressions of the same spectrum.

I would also argue that these are not disorders, but normal variations within human behavior that have been pathologized for no other reason but the rather eccentric and unusual behavior of people within, which makes them more difficult to manipulate and control.

Borderline especially, as a diagnosis, is corrupted by sexist, cultural and gender issues - most psychiatric diagnoses are, IMO, though none so much as BPD.

I was diagnosed as Bpd, which now is actually known as emotional dysregulation disorder, when I was 21.
I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome last year. Thus, I retain both diagnoses, but the clinician believed that the bpd traits developed as a result of the lack of knowledge of the Asperger's and abuse thus not being dealt with appropriately when it occurred. As I have become older, I am not so bad as I was. The main residue is the appallingly low self esteem, hyper alertness for any sign of criticism and an occasional sense of sadness at the fact that I matter to so few, due to my tendency to just not be able to put myself out there, and a general inability to feel myself to be cared for or loved. I must confess, I have always thought bpd is a bit of a cop-out, and is thrown upon anyone they cannot be bothered to investigate in more depth. I also believe it just another form of PTSD.

I have been reading about this condition and lurked on forums about it. I once thought I could have this when I was 16 after watching Girl Interrupted and then I decided I didn't have it. Some people think she didn't have it either and she was just going through a hard time and got diagnosed because she is female and then she was "recovered" because she didn't have it to begin with. That is a possibility. I think it was just anxiety I was going through and then I was magically better when our puppy died because he was a major stresser in my life all because he wouldn't quit peeing in the house and wouldn't learn to go outside because he would hold it until he was inside to go. I don't think BPD works like that because they need DBT to get better and their condition isn't caused by a stresser or by anxiety. It's a personality disorder, not an anxiety disorder or an adjustment disorder. I didn't become a victim of this diagnoses.

I was assessed using the SCID-II across all the PDs but had none, but especially not BPD. I don't believe that actual BPD and ASD look alike at all, having been put in a PD therapy group for lack of other services and it not working out.

Before I was diagnosed with NLD I thought I may have BPD. However, it would not at all surprise me if I have both NLD and BPD.