Bipolar vs Borderline Personality Disorder How to tell the difference

Bipolar disorder vs borderline personality disorder. They are very similar but very different. This video is based on a viewer question. There is a big difference between personality disorders and the psychiatric illnesses like depression anxiety bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The personality measure hardwiring whereas these illnesses are like your state at the time. Another analogy would be comparing your personality to the climate of a region and a disorder like depression would be the weather that you are having at the moment. Using our diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders 5th edition, borderline personality disorder is defined by the following: A pattern of unstable relationships, self-image, and emotional expression, 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 an example of this is the person may seem to