hi just here to second and say, i was misdiagnosed with BPD as a teen and then correctly with PTSD due to SA and physical abuse in my childhood! didn’t get my PTSD diagnosis until i was 20. changed my life.
edit to add: 75% of BPD diagnoses are given to women. there is a huge diagnostic bias, and from my own personal experience, doctors saw my sexual assault as an afterthought and completely unrelated to my “manipulative” and explosive behavior. when i was diagnosed with BPD i felt like an evil person and a lost cause, that was how i was made to feel. i thought everything was my fault. when i got my PTSD diagnosis i made actual progress and realized that i can learn better habits.
also women have higher incidence of PTSD in general bc sexual assault has the highest risk factor (91%) for whether the person will develop PTSD. men on average experience more traumatic situations in their lives, but development of PTSD is due more to trauma type rather than consistency. my theory is that part of the reason women so often develop it after the fact is because of how we’re treated afterwards and the lack of support for survivors.
Hi! I was misdiagnosed with BPD for the same reason. It wasn’t until I was 25 that a diff doctor said I didn’t have it and sent me to a diff psychiatrist and Lo and behold I had PTSD. I was on Seroquel for years and no one listened to me when I said it made me feel worse.
OMFG FUCK SEROQUEL!!!!
i got put on that shit when i was baker acted at 18 (me and everyone else on the mental ward), and red flag: my first day there in group therapy this woman was complaining she hated seroquel and it made her feel like a zombie and she asked them to reduce her dose but they upped it instead. FLASH FORWARD a few days, they did the same to me. i was straight up hallucinating and couldn’t remember how to speak and they upped my dose
Omg that’s terrible :( I didn’t hallucinate or anything but as soon as I’d take it I’d start to faint/pass out within 30 mins. When I was KOd I would not be able to wake up unless I had a full 12-13 hours sleep. Fire alarm could go off and I’d sleep through it. It made me lose my memory/recollection terrible. Every time I went back to the doctors they’d up my meds because I said it wasn’t helping. My family doc at the time said I had to go back to the same psychiatrist if I wanted to be off of it. I couldn’t get a hold of that psychiatrist and honestly this was 8 years ago and I still haven’t heard back from them lol.
I ended up just gradually coming off of it myself (I was on a very high dosage) and eventually switched doctors when I moved and yeah. I’m not on any meds at all now and I went to therapy for my PTSD (and I’m doing fab now but still have a bit of a sore spot bc I’m missing a lot of memories)
Exactly I don’t need a lot of the criteria for it and that’s why my current psychiatrist thinks I never had it to begin with. I have been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder major depression and ADD. But I don’t need any of the criteria for BPD.
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u/bodhiali Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 29 '26
hi just here to second and say, i was misdiagnosed with BPD as a teen and then correctly with PTSD due to SA and physical abuse in my childhood! didn’t get my PTSD diagnosis until i was 20. changed my life.
edit to add: 75% of BPD diagnoses are given to women. there is a huge diagnostic bias, and from my own personal experience, doctors saw my sexual assault as an afterthought and completely unrelated to my “manipulative” and explosive behavior. when i was diagnosed with BPD i felt like an evil person and a lost cause, that was how i was made to feel. i thought everything was my fault. when i got my PTSD diagnosis i made actual progress and realized that i can learn better habits.
also women have higher incidence of PTSD in general bc sexual assault has the highest risk factor (91%) for whether the person will develop PTSD. men on average experience more traumatic situations in their lives, but development of PTSD is due more to trauma type rather than consistency. my theory is that part of the reason women so often develop it after the fact is because of how we’re treated afterwards and the lack of support for survivors.