Post by Mea on Dec 16, 2015 8:56:53 GMT
Anonymous asked: Im for certain I have BPD but looking back on it im sure it started showing during middle school is this too far back for BPD to appear? i just really really think alot of the things i did and felt in middle school where because of my BPD specifically in the six grade. (relationship permeance, outburts of chaotic drama where i turned on my friends and ruined my relationships, and modling into personalities etc)
Answer: It’s normal for people with BPD to look back on their past and see very clear instances of displaying BPD symptoms, even at a young age. I don’t think it’s correct to say your BPD was fully developed by the time you were in middle school, since the reason why BPD generally isn’t diagnosed until the late teens or early 20s is to rule out whether these dramatic and intense mood disturbances and identity symptoms are not simply the result of having a really rough time with puberty.
But sometimes, as in your case, it’s not puberty that’s causing these emotional and identity disturbances (though puberty could have been exacerbating it). Since you have displayed borderline symptoms pretty much continuously for a substantial period of time, and I assume you are now at least in your late teens if not older, then yes it would be valid to say that your BPD symptoms have been present for a substantial part of your life, from a young age.
I can look back at my life and see clear signs and symptoms of BPD even just given how “sensitive” I was as a young child. I’ve always had more intense emotions than my peers, and I’ve always been more emotionally perceptive than my peers, which meant I picked up on tension and conflict easily and was easily distressed by them. But I can’t say that I had BPD at that time. I only firmly developed the full-blown disorder when I was 19.
So no, it’s not too early for symptoms of BPD to become apparent, but I would say that sixth grade is much to young to warrant a full and confirmed diagnosis of BPD. You’re still going through too many psychological developmental and chemical changes at that time, and your personality hasn’t even fully formed into something stable by the time you’re 11 or 12. So the most you can say is that you had borderline traits or borderline tendencies at that age.
TL;DR: You can absolutely display BPD symptoms at much younger ages than late adolescence. Your borderline symptoms don’t all suddenly have to appear all at the same time in your late teens or early 20s. But sixth grade is much too early to say that you had the fully developed disorder by that time. There’s too much psychological development and chemical changes going on from the start of puberty through your teenage years for you to say your still-developing personality was already consistently disordered enough to warrant a full diagnosis at such a young age.
-Pandora
Answer: It’s normal for people with BPD to look back on their past and see very clear instances of displaying BPD symptoms, even at a young age. I don’t think it’s correct to say your BPD was fully developed by the time you were in middle school, since the reason why BPD generally isn’t diagnosed until the late teens or early 20s is to rule out whether these dramatic and intense mood disturbances and identity symptoms are not simply the result of having a really rough time with puberty.
But sometimes, as in your case, it’s not puberty that’s causing these emotional and identity disturbances (though puberty could have been exacerbating it). Since you have displayed borderline symptoms pretty much continuously for a substantial period of time, and I assume you are now at least in your late teens if not older, then yes it would be valid to say that your BPD symptoms have been present for a substantial part of your life, from a young age.
I can look back at my life and see clear signs and symptoms of BPD even just given how “sensitive” I was as a young child. I’ve always had more intense emotions than my peers, and I’ve always been more emotionally perceptive than my peers, which meant I picked up on tension and conflict easily and was easily distressed by them. But I can’t say that I had BPD at that time. I only firmly developed the full-blown disorder when I was 19.
So no, it’s not too early for symptoms of BPD to become apparent, but I would say that sixth grade is much to young to warrant a full and confirmed diagnosis of BPD. You’re still going through too many psychological developmental and chemical changes at that time, and your personality hasn’t even fully formed into something stable by the time you’re 11 or 12. So the most you can say is that you had borderline traits or borderline tendencies at that age.
TL;DR: You can absolutely display BPD symptoms at much younger ages than late adolescence. Your borderline symptoms don’t all suddenly have to appear all at the same time in your late teens or early 20s. But sixth grade is much too early to say that you had the fully developed disorder by that time. There’s too much psychological development and chemical changes going on from the start of puberty through your teenage years for you to say your still-developing personality was already consistently disordered enough to warrant a full diagnosis at such a young age.
-Pandora
