I’m in the process of potentially getting diagnosed with BPD, the main reason being is I feel I have a lot of the symptoms of emotional dysregulation that are getting in the way of me living a normal life. I have intense emotions/splitting (only with my “favorite person” though), and all of the things that could bring it about (genetics, already diagnosed with other mental health issues, fairly distressing and traumatic childhood). I also have an intense fear of abandonment leftover from my childhood and have a lot of the set-destructive tendencies I’m not proud of.

The one thing I don’t have is the personality issues though, as even if I get very angry, I know who I am. I’m pretty stable with my interests, and I don’t think my personality changes for others really.

Does anyone else have the same situation of not fitting all the symptoms? I’m wondering if I may be thinking I have this when I really don’t. Am I probably just on the lighter end of spectrum?