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Are your mood changes triggered from within yourself or from external things? Since I was diagnosed with BPD, I've come to find that one of the biggest distinctions between it and bipolar is that outside influences trigger mood changes with bpd, but bipolar mood swings are usually "routine" and have cycles.
So, like, I could be in a good mood but then hear a phrase or a song or smell a smell that triggers me to become angry, or sad, or otherwise change my mood in a split-second.
However, getting overwhelmed and frustrated and being prone to emotional outbursts because of that are also part of autism, which I have also been diagnosed with. Though it takes a lot of stress to trigger an "overflow" in me, the regular mood swings from just being exposed to external stimuli are more of an everyday issue.