Borderline Personality Disorder & age of onset/first symptoms?

I agree, I think that because of the stigma that surrounds the diagnoses that its really not neccesary to put a label on it. Bc you're asking this question it shows that you realise that there could be areas of your life that you need to work on, and I believe that you can still live a great life with bpd. I guess I first started showing symptoms around 15 but didnt really fully fit the diagnoses until 18. The way I got diagnosed was that my married boyfriend broke up with me so I ran my car into a brick wall right in front of him (hes a cop). I was put into a psychiatric hospital and then later went to therapy and was diagnosed. For the next few years it got worse. What really helped me most were a few things, I really started working on my communication skills, took 30credit hours at school in communication related cles, and I think really helped some parts of it, like in relationships instead of getting mad, slapping the guy, walking out, or something, I force myself to slow down and say what I'm concerned about, its still a fight everytime to get myself to do that tho and I don't always do that but its way way better. The other thing is that I want a career in law enforcement and I know that if I do things that I have in the past it could give me a criminal record then I can just forget that dream. I think these two things helped way more than therapy did.