Hey. Newly diagnosed borderline here. The therapist who diagnosed me seems perfect for me and is super certain that the diagnosis is correct.
However, a friend who works in general medicine and is sometimes confronted with borderline cases has a hard time believing that the diagnosis is accurate because it has never occurred to her that I could possibly be affected as i have not shown the signs she has seen in other people affected. On the one hand, I know she is not a psych professional, on the other hand, it does make me wonder.
It really ticks me off because it makes me doubt my therapist whom I would like to stick with or at least what I told him (all crap?) and the actual diagnosis. It also makes me mad that my condition is downplayed and she thinks of me as sort of a hypochondriac. I told her that maybe she didn’t know everything.

This had me really wound up all evening and half of today until used an unhealthy coping mechanism to release the tension. Yikes, go me...

Has this happened to anyone else?

Thank you for your perspective!