Q. 11 years ago I was diagnosed with depression and probable BPD. I am a nurse and being labeled with BPD scared me and I now feel I did everything in my power to not appear as if I had BPD. Depression was one thing but BPD... All my life I have looked around to see what my behavior should be and learned to act approximately as a result the BPD diagnose was eventually dropped. During a six month period I was on every medication known at the time for periods of a few days to two weeks. Trazodone 200 mg is what was settled on and I have been on that these many years. It has helped some with depression but not the other signs and symptoms of BPD which I am convinced I do have and no longer care about labels I just want some peace in my life. Should I take more of the trazodone or be on other medication altogether. Prozac was the newest medication I was on 11 years ago.

A. If you still have depressive symptoms, but not BPD, you should talk to your doctor about using an alternative or add-on second medication. Depression is resolvable symptomatically for most folks with appropriate medication management. I really do not know enough about your depression to tell you what to try next. Sounds like your doctor of the past decade has done a good job.