So a couple of years ago I went to a psychiatrist hoping to get help for BPD after working on it myself for years already. After ten minutes he dismissed me and told me I didn’t actually have BPD, and all my issues were just transitional issues because I was in university. 

Anyway, I’m seeing a therapist now who I’ve been working with for a few months and I’ve started keeping score in my head when she calls me on stuff that are straight up BPD symptoms. She told me today that was “rigid” and “black and white” and I thought wow, sure sounds like something a person with BPD would do!! 

I haven’t actually brought BPD up with her because I’m scared of how she’ll react, but I’m hoping after enough sessions together her reaction will be “no shit Sherlock.”