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ASD & personality disorder

ajl338

Does anyone else here have a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder?

I got this before i got my ASD label at the age of 36. But i think the BPD is all wrong. I had a massive meltdown in the MH unit and got labelled as BPD which means to the MH world that i am a pain in the backside and hard to handle which i'm not, i just cant cope if they take away all my coping stratergies and routines.

I'm interested in getting the BPD taken off my notes becuase its all the medics see and they dont respect the aspergers part of me

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    NAS15431 said:

    i kind of have the opposite problem, the psychiatrist told me 'i would diagnose you with chronic depression but autism covers all the symptoms' because he heard i had an autism diagnosis!

    But a diagnosis of chronic depression is more of a statement that you have a problem and something needs to be done. Having a diagnosis of autism will help guide them to the right treatment for your depression. Autism gives us a predisposition to depression and you would treat an autistic person with depression differently to someone who had depression for other e.g. chemically based reasons.

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    NAS15431 said:

    i kind of have the opposite problem, the psychiatrist told me 'i would diagnose you with chronic depression but autism covers all the symptoms' because he heard i had an autism diagnosis!

    But a diagnosis of chronic depression is more of a statement that you have a problem and something needs to be done. Having a diagnosis of autism will help guide them to the right treatment for your depression. Autism gives us a predisposition to depression and you would treat an autistic person with depression differently to someone who had depression for other e.g. chemically based reasons.

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