This is borderline

This is borderline personality disorder. This is bipolar disorder. What's the difference? Part 1. Well they both have mood swings. The difference is how rapid the mood swings are and the trigger. Borderline personality disorder, the rapid mood swings are usually minutes or within hours, and they don't last as long. They're typically in response to a trigger like, someone saying something or getting into conflict with someone. Versus bipolar disorder, where the mood swings tend to be of an episode, a mood episode, either hypomanic, manic, or depressive. They typically last for things like days to weeks. And they're not triggered by something interpersonal. They happen independently, no matter what's happening in your situation. Borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder both have impulsivity. They may look similar, from different places. The impulsivity in borderline personality disorder typically manifests taking things like risky sexual behavior, risky substance use, risky things that get you into trouble, and that stems from a need to cope with feeling dysregulated inside, having emotional turmoil. The impulsivity, however, in bipolar disorder stems from a different place. It tends to be in the setting of a mood episode, a manic episode, a hypomanic episode. And it shows up as a part of a mood episode with other symptoms like poor sleep, racing thoughts, and grandiosity. Now anger in BPD and irritability in bipolar disorder, they may look similar, but they're not the same thing. The anger in BPD tends to stem from being rejected, feeling abandoned from an interpersonal conflict, feeling dysregulated, or some external situation. In bipolar disorder, that irritability again stems from a mood episode. So you're going to see things like poor sleep, racing thoughts, and FOLLOW FOR PART 2 an inability to FOLLOW FOR PART 2 sit still, psychomotor agitation. FOLLOW FOR PART 2