Borderline Personality Disorder – Other Conditions

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Because the individual with the borderline personality disorder can also often exhibit a substance use disorder, you have to always rule out substance use disorder. People with borderline personality disorder can also exhibit bipolar disorder, because there’s an impulsive component to the individual with the borderline personality disorder. And also, one of the more challenging aspects is that oftentimes we will have diagnoses that are comorbid. You can have multiple diagnoses, so it’s not uncommon for individual to have borderline personality disorder as well as bipolar disorder, or it’s not uncommon for person to have borderline personality disorder traits as well as narcissistic personality traits or even anti-social personality traits. So I think, understand that sometimes these diagnoses don’t just exist in a vacuum is very important to conceptualize.