I was diagnosed when I was 18, been seeing psychiatrists a long time and have a whole list of diagnoses I had supposedly had before the decided to brand me with BPD.
I've managed to stay my way through university and I've been a qualified psychiatric nurse for over a year (so I'm obviously keeping it well in)

My main symptoms are generally intense anxiety, paranoia, some auditory hallucinations. The mood swings were never a massive problem, for me anyway, everyone I spoke to about it always told me I had some anger issues but I, personally, never found myself to be angry.

So two weekends ago my boyfriend had to phone the police because something in me just absolutely snapped and I ended up smashing most things in our kitchen and being a general riot. The week afterwards I was completely low, contemplating suicide, catatonic at times, and reverted back to reckless driving and stuff like that.
I'm now on a bit of a high, pretty elated, pressured speech, a lot of paranoia! 
But I've found that when my mood goes down it will stay down for a prolonged period of time before it becomes back to swinging several times a day and then a nice period of stability. 
I'm kind of guessing this is me slowly getting the hang of this control thing I hear everyone go on about.

I'm feeling all round pretty positive with what's been happening though and the progress. The spell of anger and aggression did come out of the blue but I am pining that particular episode on hormones (I've recently had my IUD removed). I'd just thought I would share my happiness with other BPD-ers rather than people who don't even know the first thing about it!
