I (30F) feel that I've been misdiagnosed as Bipolar, and I've told my therapist that I feel my symptoms/actions are more on the BPD (personality disorder) scale. I don't really know how to get it thru to her. This is a new therapist that I've started seeing. I think my issue is I've told her that my mood fluctuates alot, what I mean by that is I can be fine all day, and something or someone might set me off and once I'm raging, it's like I will say the meanest things, then I typically cool down after a few mins and then I'm apologetic for my behavior. I also feel like when I've been "set off", that's when all rationale goes out the window and I can't even think clearly when I'm raging. She's taking this to mean that I'm bipolar when I really doubt that I am. And she's telling me that I'm dealing with a mood disorder, when I feel like I'm dealing with a personality disorder and she's also told me that the mental health/psychiatry community is actually thinking about doing away with the "BPD' diagnosis altogether. The reasons why I think I have BPD is my impulsive nature and instability in my relationships. I have to tendency to break up after an minor thing happens because in my head, I'm thinking that I'm going to leave this person before they leave me...but that always stirs up my abandonment issues, because after the breakup, I become really needy and I'm begging them to take me back. I also suffered from sexual abuse and physical abuse in my childhood/teen years. Have PTSD from that. Another thing is value/devalue ppl in my life, once I feel that someone has 'slighted' me, I will basically kick that person out of my life. It doesn't even have to be real, it could just be something that I might have even made up in my mind because I tend to overthink situations. With new friends/new relationships, I tend to pick up on their habits, their likes/dislikes, their slang/lingo and make it my own as well. I recently drove and parked in my bf's cul de sac when I knew he wasn't home and was working because I missed him and just wanted to be close to him, I just parked and was in my car but I left after an hour. I really feel like I've been misdiagnosed as bipolar, I've tried talking to my therapist about it but I don't think she's that familiar on personality disorders. 

I do have an upcoming appt with a psychiatrist (first time meeting a psychiatrist) on Monday so she can prescribe medication, is this something that I can bring up with her? How do I even go about asking her this?

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tldr: I feel like my therapist doesn't understand my symptoms and has misdiagnosed me as bipolar?