Relationships
If you have a partner, how much do they participate in your care? Are they involved with your therapy or see a therapist of their own? Do they understand your diagnosis? Do they have their own mental health issues to navigate? How long have you been together and how has your BPD affected your relationship?
My husband has been with me 3 years. He has not yet become used to my symptoms (though thankfully I have only been fully manic 2 times - once while pregnant and once when I met him. Yes, I net and married him while I was fully manic.) He has severe depression, something that was mild when we met, but then he changed meds to get rid of side effects, and hasn't found one that works well. He understands depression, but does not understand mania (or the anxiety I often get with hypomania). But he tries to. Right now he thinks "our symptoms are incompatible" and he's staying at his mom's to recover from depression.