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A Classic Case of BPD
Article by a “cured” BP. The most interesting thing is this: The most important thing is, Do not hospitalize a person with borderline personality disorder for any more than 48 hours. My self-destructive episodes – one leading right into another – came out only after my first and subsequent hospital admissions, after I learned the system was usually obligated to respond. Nothing that had happened to me before being admitted to a psychiatric unit for the first time could even approach the severity of the episodes that followed. Should you hospitalize your BP? Maybe not. http://ps.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/49/2/173 No related posts.
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Why “Stop Walking on Eggshells” is a Recipe for Divorce
Many people when they find out about BPD, read “Stop Walking on Eggshells”. Just about everyone in the “non” community has read it. I read it AND read the workbook. At the time I thought, “Yes! Someone who understands!” I thought, “Finally, a method for dealing with my wife’s crazy behaviors.” Well, folks, I was wrong. This book is about nons and ways for the nons to handle the BP’s behavior. Unfortunately, for the BPs, it does nothing to help them heal. In fact, the idea of setting limits and boundaries for BPs only serves to piss them off more. Let me tell you why: BPD is a disorder in…
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BPD: Emotional Dysregulation and MRI/fMRI
A study, using an MRI, of BPD patients found: We believe that this hyper excitability in BPD patients, particularly in brain regions thought to be involved in generating emotions, is likely to put this patient group at high risk for experiencing episodes of abnormally intense and inappropriate negative emotions characteristic of ED. In support of our hypothesis, we also found that the level of amygdala activation to the Fearful, and Neutral faces in BPD patients is significantly correlated with diagnostic measures of emotional lability. So, what does this mean? If you “go calm” or “neutral” on the BP in your life, they will not understand it – their brain sees…