Hello - I've been seeing a therapist weekly since the end of January - we have been working on a lot of issues involving unresolved childhood trauma. Last week she asked me if I enjoyed reading and then recommended a book on Borderline Personality Disorder. I thought it was a little odd and random, but  I didn't think much of it. However, she then asked me if I'd ever taken the MMPI-2 (which I have), and asked to send her the results.

I bought the book and have been reading it, and I realized that I think she may have asked me to read it because she thinks I have BPD. I've been researching mental illness for years so I knew about BPD before this book, but I never looked too deep into it because I realized that I fit a lot of the criteria, and that alarmed me because I didn't want to think I had personality disorder (ignorance is bliss I guess). However, after reading this book I'm seeing the correlation again, and I realized I need to face the fact that it's possible that I do have it.

 I know you can't read my therapist's mind, but I'm wondering - does it seem like she thinks I have BPD? Has anyone had a similar experience in therapy? She asked me to highlight things I wanted to talk about while reading the book, so I know we're gonna talk more about it this week (which is when I'm gonna ask her why she wanted me to read it in the first place). I just wanted to see what you guys thought about it first so I can have more of an idea of what to expect in this week's session.