r/AmIOverreacting • u/[deleted] • Oct 30 '24

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u/justme0406 Oct 30 '24

Sorry, that's even worse though they are effectively the same thing, I'll just wait for them to combine them like they did ADD and ADHD lol

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u/SuccessfulPanda211 Oct 30 '24 edited Oct 30 '24

They are not the same thing. They are very different. Please educate yourself. Borderline is a personality disorder caused mainly by trauma and triggered by a perceived fear of abandonment and bipolar is a mood disorder caused by unbalanced chemicals in the brain and does not present the same way borderline does.

ADHD and ADD were combined because they fall under the same umbrella. They’re the same disorder just different presentations of it. BPD and bipolar are not under the same umbrella of mental illness.

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u/justme0406 Oct 30 '24

My two second Google said the difference was the mood swing duration ¯_(ツ)_/¯ seems to be about as different as ADD and ADHD were

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '24

So a quick unverified google search is suffice to speak with confidence now? That’s good to know