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Borderline … or not!?

Borderline Personality Disorder is a diagnosis which is often misdiagnosed due to its broad spectrum of symptoms. The symptoms are also present in many other disorders, such ADHD, ASD, Depression etc., and I meet women almost daily, who have been diagnosed with Borderline due to their emotional instability issues. To help you, as a clinician or patient, to better identify and distinguish between these disorders, I've created this guide to help.

Borderline Personality Disorder is a diagnosis which is often misdiagnosed due to its broad spectrum of symptoms. The symptoms are also present in many other disorders, such ADHD, ASD, Depression etc., and I meet women almost daily, who have been diagnosed with Borderline due to their emotional instability issues. To help you, as a clinician or patient, to better identify and distinguish between these disorders, I’ve created this guide to help.

More often than not, I have people asking me for guidance on how to improve their life quality and understand want it is in their current life situations, that causes them so much turmoil. My special interest area is ADHD and ASD in girls and women, and especially women with undiagnosed ADHD suffer from Emotional Dysregulation which is not yet been recognized as a core feature of ADHD, but is currently associated with Borderline Personality Disorder in both the DSM-5 and ICD-10.

But when you consult the latest scientific evidence from the past 5 years, you will find, that there is a consensus among the most experienced researchers and clinicians, that Emotional Dysregulation and Mind Wandering are two new symptoms, that fit into the core features of ADHD, and which accounts for many of the psychological challenges of living with ADHD, especially as a girl or women without a childhood diagnosis. Today, late diagnosis of women with emotional symptoms are often misdiagnosed as having Borderline, whereas their actual root cause is ADHD+ASD.

Borderline … or not!?

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