Ive been told that i cannot claim i have bpd without a diagnosis, which is understandable Ig. But i do show a lot of the symptoms and my mom recently told me that she had seen me splitting or dealing with mania episodes but kept quiet. My dad had bpd so she didn’t want to make me afraid of becoming him. I asked if i could get it checked out and she said that i would handicap myself 

I can also see that side of things. I hear that people with bpd diagnosis are treated differently by doctors. 

So my questions are…
1 How do you feel about self diagnosis?
2 what does diagnosis help with even? Or would it impair me