So, I no longer meet the criteria for BPD.
Borderline Personality Disorder
A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
(1)    frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.
(2)    a pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation
(3)    identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self image or sense of self
(4)    impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating). Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.
(5)    recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior
(6)    affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)
(7)    chronic feelings of emptiness
(8)    inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights)
(9)    transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms*
I meet #6 and #7
It has been really hard to have BPD. BPD isn't something that can be cured, it is in remission, like cancer. Evan seems to think that I am cured, even though I have explained to him that BPD can't be cured. I love being in remission, I am more stable, I have been able to have a better relationship with Evan, I don't pick fights with Evan.  I am so happy to have a better relationship with Evan. It has helped us to be closer. Being in remission is also like cancer in the sense that there is always a chance that I can always relapse, I can always have more symptoms of BPD anytime in my life. 
*DSM-V
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