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well the reason i question it is because i have major abandonment issues...as was abandoned either literally or emotionally by nearly everyone in my life growing up and i self injure daily and constantly with my nails across my skin.

The unstable relationships....hell that's with any mental illness, but most easy to address it is through learning about codependency...which is what makes her do anything for anyone. Most anyone with mental illness in their family line will also have codie issues.

Or a persona could just be a codie and have the severly unstable relationships WITHOUT mental illness being present.

One thing i read yesterday about borderline when i spent a few minutes looking around was that it appears to co-exist with other mental illnesses...like bipolar disorder.

Really, when it gets right down to it....most people like myself who are diagnosed with bipolar or AD/HD or Borderline or any number of very similar diagnosis will have a hard time ever knowing if they are JUST one...or a mixture of two or more mental illnesses as things are catagorized currently.

I'm wondering where i got the narsasistic idea of borderline now....oh yeah...in my day treatment program. One girl said she was borderline and another member of the group asked what it was and both therapists in the room agreed that it's similar to many others like bipolar, but that it has the non-caring feature to it.

I'm still going to have to find that in some printed form...as now i'm obviously questioning it and them.

So thanks for this quiestion and thread!