personality disorders, generally speaking, are supposed to take a long time to diagnose. In reason for that is that if i'm stressed out, i'm going to be behaving in like, a more impaired way,. If i'm going through a temporary period of stress, i'll be lashing out at people. My mood will be more irritable. I'll have difficulty sleeping, i'll feel bad about myself. But it's just like, it's like stress, let's haveth finals time, for example. Or if someone you know loses their job, or if there's a death in the family, or you have a break up, or something like that. There are all kinds