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An Example of an Angry Non
I found this review on Amazon as a review for the book “Understanding the Borderline Mother.” This excerpt says a lot about people’s understanding of borderlines: Perhaps it is true that the borderline personality is a real disorder in various ways, but I know for a fact that there are borderlines who can control their negative behaviours when they really want to, and that is the most frightening thing of all, that a grown adult can still act so immaturely and continue to destroy other people willfully. I think that someone needs to write a book about this too. Also take in mind that some people who were once classified…
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DBT for the Family?
An article on DBT training for family members of borderlines: Individual DBT has addressed the problems of the individual’s emotional vulnerability (high sensitivity, high reactivity, slow return to baseline) component by intervening directly with the individual patient. Although interventions with family members are briefly noted in the original treatment manual, standard DBT does not directly attempt to affect the second component of the etiological model for BPD and related disorders, namely, that of the invalidating environment. There are several levels of adapting DBT that are possible. First, one could simply apply DBT essentially intact to new populations (for example, to battering men; Fruzzetti, Rubio, & Thorp, 1998). Or, one could…
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Invalidating Environments
Invalidating Environments Although there are many examples of invalidating environments, all share three characteristics: (1) individual behaviors and communications are rejected as invalid; (2) emotional displays and painful behaviors are met with punishment that is erratically administered and intermittently reinforcing; (3) the environment oversimplifies the ease with which problems may be solved and needs met. Most of us have encountered such environments at some point in our lives and we commonly deal with them by changing our behavior to meet expectations, or by changing the environment so that it is no longer invalidating, or, ultimately, by simply leaving the environment. The dilemma for the borderline patient occurs when the individual…
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Toxic Shame
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Does DBT Work?
A study reviewed by the National Institutes of Health on DBT effectiveness: Pre-post-comparison showed significant changes for the DBT group on 10 of 11 psychopathological variables and significant reductions in self-injurious behavior. The waiting list group did not show any significant changes at the four-months point. The DBT group improved significantly more than participants on the waiting list on seven of the nine variables analyzed, including depression, anxiety, interpersonal functioning, social adjustment, global psychopathology and self-mutilation. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15033496&query_hl=18 No related posts.
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Bellman’s Syndrome – BPD and Chronic Pain
A link between chronic pain and BPD/PTSD: Over the years in treating BPD or PTSD I have observed a syndrome that my fellow clinicians now refer to as the “”Bellman Syndrome”” a title I modestly [accepted]. It is simply stated thus; chronic pain and medication addiction are directly associated with BPD or PTSD in a complex interaction. No related posts.
