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Q: Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Disorder Or Both ?

asked by: aapel on January 13th, 2005

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Hi,

in france many bpd people are wrongly diagnosed with bipolar disorder even if dsm criteria are very different (bpd is in axis ii and bipolar in axis i)

in both disorders there is mood features but for bpd, mood swing is mainly "emotional"

perhaps this page could help some of you to make the differences
www.Borderlinedisorder.Org/bipolar-disorde r

alain

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kword

replied on March 25th, 2006

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Diagnosis In Europe

Hey,
i have compared the standard diagnosis criteria for bpd in the states then viewed the diagnostics for bpd in europe and have noticed a great difference in the two I can see how a misdiagnosis could have been possible. The european diagnosis seems so much more vague, im glad in america we have docters who have spent time and who care about the right answers not always the quickest.

Kword

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