My friend and I were talking about BPD and emailing and the way she described it was good to me. I was wondering if anyone related because I've had doctors/professionals tell me that my empathy means I'm not BPD (even when everything else lives up perfectly. 

She said: 
"I think the empathy part is where people get lost. They consider BPD as a non empathetic disorder, but it's not true.  The part that people miss, is that when our emotions are not intense we feel everyone else's emotions.  However, when the emotions are too intense to handle we don't give a shit how anyone else feels because all we can feel is what we feel.  So much so that in those moments, yes, we lack empathy, but only when we can't deal with anything because the emotion is so intense.  Our brains cannot handle the emotions of someone else too.  It's in those moments that we get impulsive and make things worse."

DAE relate? 