Hi everyone. This is my first time posting to this sub, and I'm a bit nervous. Anyway, I was diagnosed with BPD in August 2016 after being hospitalized due to my mental health. What's weird is that after I was discharged, my BPD was never addressed again. It's on my medical records, listed under my current health issues, but I've never talked about it with my doctors, or even my psychiatrist at the time. It's like everyone just disregarded it, so I did, too.

I started feeling like it was a misdiagnosis, or that I don't "really" have BPD because no one ever talked about it after my hospitalization. However, over the past few months I've been doing some serious reading about BPD and lurking on this sub, and I've never related to anything more. I'm finally starting to come to terms with the diagnosis and accept it.

I recently said something to my therapist about being diagnosed years ago, and she basically shut me down and told me that I probably don't have BPD. So, I guess my question is, what should I do? I have this lingering BPD diagnosis from 4 years ago that no one has ever acknowledged. Do I need to be re-diagnosed? What steps should I take?