Borderline Personality Disorder

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You feel very worried about people abandoning you, and would do anything to stop that happening.NO.
You have very intense emotions that last from a few hours to a few days and can change quickly (for example, from feeling very happy and confident to suddenly feeling low and sad).NO.
You don't have a strong sense of who you are, and it can change significantly depending on who you're with.Yes but only because I dated controlling people who didn't like who I was. This hasn't been the case with my current boyfriend and I haven't changed myself at all.
You find it very hard to make and keep stable relationships. I'm capable of having long term stable relationships.
You feel empty a lot of the time. I feel numb, not empty, but that's probably more to do with antidepressants than personality.
You act impulsively and do things that could harm you (such as binge eating, using drugs or driving dangerously).NO.
You often self-harm or have suicidal feelings. Not any more.
You have very intense feelings of anger, which are really difficult to control. NO.
When very stressed, you may also experience paranoia or dissociation. Rarely.

Today I started the beginning of DBT therapy, just one on one with a peer support specialist. Anyway I found out the doctor strongly feels I have Borderline, and the lady was going over with me on why she feels this. I told her about my uncle and how he threatened to not be in my life anymore if we didn't give him money and she said someone like that is taking advantage of my fear of abandonment to get me to give him money and not to associate with him anymore. I highly suspect my uncle is narcissistic or even psychopathic but of course I have no proof and that's another topic.

Anyway getting back on topic I also have to tendency to either really love my romantic partner, or the opposite, hate his guts and switching back and forth in these feelings. That's common in borderline too. And my husband who himself was diagnosed in the past with borderline... He has such a fear of abandonment over me too that he's "clingy" which can cause problems.