After being in therapy for a long time now, my new-ish therapist (have been seeing her since June) says that I have “borderline tendencies.” She says that I don’t have like full on BPD, but fit a lot of the criteria. It was honestly so unexpected of her to say. I was telling her about my awful week and *dangerous* thoughts and she said “I’ve been thinking about this since the beginning but didn’t want to say anything too soon because of the negative connotations around it” and then asked if I was familiar with bpd and said I had traits. My heart sank a little at first but at the same time I felt a little validated because I always worry that I don’t paint a clear enough picture of how bad it gets. And I feel like I’m being taken seriously. But now I’m like.. what does it even mean to not have bpd but have borderline tendencies? Because I agree, I am missing certain aspects of it. But she was saying it so seriously like a diagnosis and was talking like a serious game plan on how to deal with this. I def need to ask her more about it. I’m always so worried about “making things up for attention” so I’m worried about asking. But I know that sounds stupid. Anyway, what do you all think? Is there such a thing as a mild form of bpd?? Idk what’s goin on