The awareness of mental health has gone up a lot in the last few years but there are still many misconceptions about many disorders including bipolar disorder which is what my therapist and me thought I had before. even though bipolar disorder has mood episodes that last usually weeks at a time many people still think of bipolar disorder as like just general mood swings. I told one of my close teachers about my bipolar assessment (before I knew I had BPD) and he was curious about my experience and one of the things he said was "so like does your personality just change unpredictably" and I thought about it for a sec and realized that he was kind of right despite the fact that bipolar is a mood disorder, not a personality disorder. anyway I don't know where I'm going with all this tbh I'm just putting my thoughts out there