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A Note about BPD and Boundaries And SWOE
In my Google Group, I recently responded to a member about boundaries and the term “non”. In this message the word SWOE refers to the book “Stop Walking on Eggshells” and WTO refers to the “Welcome to Oz” Yahoo mailing group (which is the largest Non group on the Internet). As you can see by my message I am not over enthusiastic about either: — snip The WTO site is all about the “non” and setting “boundaries” does this come from SWOE??? The non label does come from SWOE as far as I’ve been able to tell. It is in common usage now throuhgout the Internet and the BPD community…
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Runaway Shame?
I made another realization recently. When I am depressed, I don’t know what makes me sad, but I feel sad (it’s worse than “sad” but that’s the general family). I imagine that when people get panic disorder they fear fear for “no reason”. So, I was thinking – perhaps depression is when sadness goes haywire, panic when fear goes haywire and BPD (or ERD, or whatever the disorder is called) is when shame goes haywire. It’s not like there is a “valid external reason” to feel shame. They just DO. But often they look for external reasons. It’s a theory anyway… No related posts.
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Dutch Study Shows Promise
Here’s an article published in JAMA journal the Archives of General Psychiatry (http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/) on June 5th, 2006: Recovery possible for Borderline Patients Dutch investigators prove effectiveness of new treatment. For the first time in history it has been proven that Borderline Personality Disorder can be effectively treated in its full range. Investigators of Maastricht University, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Leiden University published in the June 2006 issue of the JAMA journal the Archives of General Psychiatry a study into the effectiveness of two psychotherapies for borderline patients. The study demonstrates that Schema focused therapy leads to complete recovery in about 50% of the patients, and in two-thirds to a significant…
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Validation and DBT
Validation and DBT: Validation in DBT involves five different levels. This first two are similar to other psychotherapies and involve unbiased listening and observing, and eliciting and accurately reflecting the patient’s thoughts, feelings, and assumptions. The third step of validation is to articulate for the patient unverbalized emotions, thoughts, or behavior patterns. The idea is to accurately “read their minds” and help them learn to accurately label internal states. The fourth step is for the therapist to validate the person’s present behavior based on their past learning history. In other words, from the DBT perspective, any human given the same biological makeup and learning history would end up responding in…
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Buddha and DBT
It is CBT, but focuses on schemas and deeply-entrenced “cognitions”. Unlike DBT, which focuses on emotions (mainly) and cognitive distortions, SFT takes a page from the personality people and tries to rebuild the schemas that make up the personality. DBT is usually not too concerned with “what you learned from your parents” more “what you think about things and how can we change that”. Now, with respect to a Jospeh Campbell thing – I could say quite a bit. What I’d like to say is this (hopefully briefly, because I’m busy today – I have read all the messages from yesterday and before and there seems to be a bunch…