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Can you tell me the same symptoms that bipolar and borderline personality have?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

The two disorders: Can occur together. Sometimes borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder can be confused with one another. It can take time to tease the two conditions apart.

Answered 11/24/2015

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Borderline: Intense fear of abandonment, being manipulative, impulsivity, a tendency to think of people and things in all good or all bad terms, self mutilating behaviors, drug and alcohol abuse, sexual impulsivity, a profoundly disturb sense of self, and extreme emotional volatility. Bipolar disorder is characterized by extreme mood swings from deep depression to the stratosphere of mania.

Answered 4/7/2015

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