Is it possible to be Bipolar, OCD and BPD

[heyjude1]

I have been diagnoised with Bipolar I but I think I also have tendencies of Boderline Personality Disorder, (paranoia, physically abused as a child, fear of rejection and abandonment, sudden rages), and I have obcessive thoughts when I am upset and play the incident over and over and over in my mind...who said what, what was said and done next, etc. for days.  Is it possible to be all three?

[Roger Gould, M.D.]

if you have a number of very difficult symptoms and it sounds like you had a very difficult past history.  You should try to connect the two was some form of talk therapy so that you can understand how your past may be distorting your present life.  Don't become obsessed with diagnostic labels.  That only keeps you away from what you should be doing which is discovering the origin of your symptoms and what you can do about them.

[Jaquta]

It is possible to have any number of disorders or diagnoses at any one time.

Bipolar and BPD can sometimes be difficult to differentiate.  They have some symptoms which overlap.
Anxiety often co-exists with other disorders.  

If you have concerns it would pay to discuss them with a psychiatrist or therapist.  Appropriate diagnosis will allow for better treatment and should translate into better quality of life.

[Jaquta]

I wish someone would have emphasized with me the significance of symptoms versus allowing me to become enslaved to a diagnosis.

I think diagnoses have significantly affected my recovery.  I still find it difficult to focus on the symptoms versus the diagnostic label.  I have given meanings to a label which I find difficult to work through.

The doctor has some great advice.  I would use that to direct me.