I got diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder about a year ago. I also got a diagnose Bipolar-II today (2 other psychiatrists have told me before that I have Bipolar characteristics) from another psychiatrist and my BPD was reconfirmed. 

Has anyone any experience with having both BPD and BP-II as I find it very confusing and I feel like it’s a pretty dramatic duo. Personally, I feel like they are both pretty “fierce” disorders if and I feel like I’m not that complicated/disordered. 

My emotions have always been very intense and extreme/polarised, I suffer from short term mood swings and fear of abandonment/rejection and I’ve had longer periods (weeks-months) of being depressive or the opposite: feeling euphoric, thinking I found my true calling in life, the feeling of having figured out what life means to me and increased impulsivity which has brought me in trouble from time to time. 

Im doing University, not a straight-A student but still quite an achievement me personally. I also just live a pretty normal life, I have friends, not that many crises and I’m not extremely suicidal or destructive. Like I do have some destructive characteristics such as substance abuse, reckless spending, shoplifting, disordered eating patterns and self-harm and I can get suicidal ideation from time to time but it’s not like I totally lost my mind or I’m absolutely stuck in life.

I don’t want to stigmatise either disorder and I know that every disorder is a spectrum but I still feel like this double diagnose is too “heavy” for me.

Has anyone any experience/advice/whatever on this topic? If you came this far thanks for reading.