BPD Question

How do you reconcile an attachment to mood disorder diagnoses in borderlines whose actual consolidating diagnosis is that of borderline PD? What strategies do you incorporate to manage these patients? I find it to be a nightmare in the outpatient setting when inheriting such patients. I have many colleagues who offer an alleged unspecified mood disorder or bipolar spectrum illness diagnosis to borderlines. Sometimes they want it on paper to substantiate use of atypicals (liability)...or... Read more
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