Hi everyone, 

Maybe I'm just being pedantic about labels, but I'm trying to get my head round this. For 6 years my diagnosis has been BPD/EUPD, which I accept, though it's an imperfect concept, it does describe my experiences pretty well. I was recently reassessed, over a quite intensive process of 4 separate hour long sessions, with the same service but different psychologist to where I had been assessed before. They changed my diagnosis to 'mixed personality disorder with prominent emotionally unstable and dependent features' (meaning I still meet the criteria for EUPD but also have traits of dependent PD). I'm a bit confused by this as I am not dependent on others all the time for practical things, but my psychologist said it is because of my intense emotional attachments (usually to quasi-parental figures) that I rely on to feel like I can cope. I had thought dependent PD was more about day to day living, making decisions etc., where these intense attachment and abandonment issues are already a feature of BPD, so why does this need to be a distinct diagnosis? Has anyone else had anything like this happen?