ADHD and BPD

[Guest guest]

Dee, Can you please share some of the articles you

found about ADHD and BPD? I thought I was the only one

who had this wacky little hypothesis!

Nada is (and grandnada was) BPD and obviously I don't

know what THEY were like as kids.

But my brother, in retrospect, seemed like a classic

ADHD who was never treated. He turned into BPD as an

adult, and I always thought it was related to our

crazy homelife (well, that could not have helped).

But I thought, my husband and I have this great,

happy, peaceful relationship--we'll have such a nice

environment that we'll NEVER have a difficult child

right? (haha)

Well, our son is ADHD. He is actually a kind, caring,

loving person, who has real problems with impulsivity

and a short temper and attention. Until he was

diagnosed, I kept thinking HOW much he reminded me of

my brother as a child, and THAT kind of scared me. I

thought, dear God, my " nice environment "

notwithstanding: Has my horrible gene pool produced

another BPD?

Now, FORTUNATELY, especially now that I know he's got

ADHD, and he's on medication, I do not envision him

(thank God) developing into BPD, for one thing because

he is genuinely concerned with other people, not just

himself. When I see how unfailingly kind and loving he

is with his baby sister, I know he will turn out okay.

He also knows he has these troublesome behaviors, and

he feels sorry about the havoc he sometimes causes,

and he's genuinely apologetic. Unlike my brother, he

does not have a manipulative bone in his body.

BUT, I started thinking. There probably ARE certain

personality types, such as a very impulsive ADHD

" type " that are more prone to developing BPD than

other types.

Anyone else have experience with this? Some of the

traits of ADHD (such as tending to blame everyone but

oneself for one's problems) sound very borderliny. As

a result, I have tried to teach my son, that this is a

symptom of the ADHD, and that a healthy person takes

responsibility for his situation and his actions, blah

blah blah. I try to make him as insightful and

self-aware as possible, so he has the best chance...

But seriously for years I worried whether my bad

genetic legacy had created a small version of my

brother... Scary. Looking back at all my family's MH

issues, it's a wonder I ever had the nerve to " breed. "

-Fleabitten

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