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Is it possible to experience symptoms of borderline when you only have depression?

Although borderline personality disorders have specific symptoms, I often confuse them with depression.
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It's impossible to tell from such a short post what your actual concern is, but in general, diagnoses of borderline disorders don't necessarily the treatment, as you're still basically suffering from depression.  A host of disorders have been invented in the last two diagnostic manuals, and they are very controversial in the psychiatric and psychology communities.  Most of them are still just anxiety and depression and exist because drug companies have marketed drugs for these conditions and they help docs get compensation from insurance companies.  Not to say they don't describe what's going on, but the most important thing is to not focus on labels but to focus on getting better.  But if you describe what's going on and what you're doing about it, people on here will be able to help you more.
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Sorry, left out the word "alter" the treatment.  Which is to say, a person with a borderline disorder of some kind and a person complaining of depression will probably do down a similar treatment path, which will still be trial and error with the same kinds of therapy or medication.  It's only when you truly fall into psychosis that the treatment gets vastly different.
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