I told a friend that I was looking to speak to a psych to discuss possible ADHD and/or BPD or just try to better understand my current condition if it is in fact neither of those that are driving a lot of my behaviour patterns.

She has worked with severe BPD patients as a psychologist, and when I mentioned it she was dismissive (not rudely though) saying that I would be having constant life debilitating mood swings. I definitely identify with a lot of the stories people on here bring up, and I definitely do have mood swings but typically it's when I'm triggered by something. I could go a week or two and feel fine and then something bad will happen and I will just spiral and struggle to climb out. Then when I do I feel pretty much fine. I've struggled with depression and anxiety over the years, but I get very depressed once in that spiral, a lot of the time over nothing. When I come out of the spiral I think well jeez j can't be depressed if I feel ok again, guess I'm just making it all up.

There's a lot of things I could point to to say BPD seems like a reasonable diagnosis but I don't want to write an essay. I'm just curious what you all think regarding this view of mood swings as a condition for BPD?

Thanks.