Hello all! I came to this sub after my therapist suggested I attend a DBT group and I realized it would consume nine hours of my life a week for six weeks. Therefore, I want to make an informed decision about whether or not I actually need this time commitment. How do I determine a diagnosis for BPD? What processes did y'all take to figure it out?  


A bit of background on me: I've been a nervous person for as long as I can remember, most of those stressors stemming from my efforts to perform well in school and make friends. Late high school/early college saw some more turbulent moods for me, ranging from two or three days of high energy and mild irritation to one or two weeks of extremely low energy where I couldn't be asked to care about anything. This understandably colored my platonic relationships as well as making it difficult to even try to initiate romantic ones. I am sensitive to how people around me perceive me, and my treatment team and I have observed these behaviors more intensely when I began dating a couple months ago. I don't know if this spike in anxiety is debilitating enough to me to justify such a substantial investment. Maybe it'll pass? I'm not sure, and honestly I've been officially diagnosed with Bipolar II so I don't know if DBT would even be a viable option.  


I greatly appreciate any of y'all's thoughts on this! Yes, I'm expressing apprehension in this post, but I'm not going to write it off if borderline is actually the underlying issue.