I'm 17. If I have been misdiagnosed with BPD when I really have another disorder, that means I have to live with the stigma all over my medical records when I don't even have it. Not to mention not getting proper treatment.

I've been sent away from hospital 5+ times. I've been called an attention seeker. I've been called manipulative. All by so called professionals. And this is just because of this label. 

I don't have intense interpersonal relationships. I have a few "bad" relationships right now, but they are not unstable. They don't go from love to hate. I don't have an unstable sense of self, I know who I am and who I want to be. I cut myself on and off for about 2 years, but haven't done so in 7 months and have not missed it at all. In fact, I ask myself why I ever did. It wasn't an addiction and it didn't help me. I just "liked" doing it for some reason. It was more of a hobby than a coping mechanism. Weird, I know. In fact, I was a young teenager when I started so I think it may have had something to do with the whole stupid "teenage cutting fad".

I do have intense mood swings. Sometimes I can be extremely angry, then extremely depressed, then ecstatic, then normal again. I can feel all of these intense emotions over the course of a day. Sometimes though, I feel depressed for weeks at a time and other times I feel ecstatic for days. 

I also have an anxiety disorder, so I never really know if i'm feeling "normal", because i'm always scared.

I've never really thought of myself as having a personality disorder, more of something like bipolar disorder. I was born with this. It isn't something that developed. I have developed a few "borderline type" behaviors in my teenage years, but I believe this is just anxiety or anger manifesting in ways that make me *seem* manipulative or something. 

Should I get a second opinion? I don't really understand what is happening right now. 