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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hmm.  I've been told I have BPD, and I've never been abused.

I really did have a problem believing this diagnosis.  Since then I have been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder which seems to.. fit?.. better.

Too many people self or even worse diagnose via google.[/quote]

Shrinks played around with BPD for one of my DC.  But in the end it was just anxiety.

There are many instances of people with bipolar being misdiagnosed as borderline and vice versa.  Medication does not help BPD (it can help comorbid disorders they may have like anxiety or depression), but it does help bipolar.

As a parent trying to figure out what is going on and the best way to approach it, I've spent a lot of time on google.  This isn't really to diagnose but to narrow down the diagnosis in order to narrow down the search for possible appropriate mental health providers.  You want one who has the skills to address the possible range of problems.  If your child has possible borderline, you don't want to waste time with a psychiatrist who is specialized in depression and doesn't deal with borderline, for example.

Also, I bought some books aimed at family members of borderlines like Walking on Eggshells and found that the suggestions given for dealing with someone with this disorder were also very effective in dealing with my child and her anxiety.

Another reason to spend a lot of time on google is to reality check a diagnosis the mental health providers come up with.  Psychiatry is more art than science--there are almost never blood tests or other objective signs for mental illnesses.  And since providers tend to take special interests in a limited range of disorders there is the risk of everything looking like a nail to the hammer.

My child's psychiatrist, for example, was convinced she had somatoform disorder in addition to anxiety.  I was not convinced and challenged it so the psychiatrist would not write it down anywhere; as they say somatoform, is the last diagnosis you will ever have because any medical problem after that will be chalked up to a mental health disorder.  As it turns out, my child has a progressive and painful autoimmune disease.[/quote]

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