Hi everyone, first time poster here. 

I live in the UK and have currently just started to seek support for my mental health. I found out what bpd was back in January when studying for my exams (I’m about to enter my final year of my Psychology degree) and heavily related to all the symptoms, and now 7 months later my mental health has severely declined and these symptoms are getting worse and I’m very depressed. I’ve spoken to my doctor today and I’ve been prescribed some fluoxetine and being referred to a talking therapist, but I was wondering where to go from here via getting a bpd diagnosis in the UK. 

I talked to the doctor about bpd and how I think that is what I’m going through and he seemed slightly reluctant to talk further about it. I’m pretty certain about it, I just wanted to ask how people in the UK ended up with a diagnosis, was it given to you or did you pursue it yourself? How did you do this? I feel embarrassed and like a faker if I push for the diagnosis too hard, but also I know that it would massively help me to have a certain reason for my behaviours and feelings.