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DBT and Acceptance
From Marsha Linehan article on everything2: Dr. Linehan’s education was based in the established field of cognitive-behavioral psychology, which the video refers to as `a technology of change’, focused on changing behavior through learning and experience. However, while treating borderlines in the early 1980s, Dr. Linehan decided that the cognitive-behavioral model that she was working with was insufficient, and that she needed to incorporate an element she calls `radical acceptance’. Dr. Linehan makes clear in her videotaped presentation that `acceptance’ was a real buzzword in psychology around the time that she started to promote DBT, but she maintains that her idea of `radical acceptance’ is different. When most psychologists talk…
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Famous People who Cut themselves
A link from self-injury.net, a site by a young self-injurer. These biographies were written by the author of the site. They include: Diana, Princess of Wales Colin Farrell Fiona Apple Johnny Depp Courtney Love Angelina Jolie Amy Winehouse (RIP) Pete Doherty Lindsay Lohan Darrell Hammond (recently added because he came out and said he cut himself) and others I wonder if any of these people are also borderlines. No star is willing to come out and publicly say they are. I have updated the link to go to the appropriate page. http://self-injury.net/media/famous-self-injurers [amazonshowcase_aae6001f3f5766bb5a55f3fb147c3088] [amazonshowcase_fca1b973869626c648b4713f66c7a2c8] No related posts.
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Cognitive Distortions
This is a portion of a message that I posted on WTO many months ago. I will probably cut some more out of it and post it here, because I think it is important. I have removed some of the details and responses to other messages that would not make sense here: I think people often make mistakes in “self-diagnosis”. For all I know, half the people (or more) viewing these messages are not dealing with BPD at all, but instead something else. That is one of the reasons that a couple of months ago, I specifically asked a mother on this board whether her daughter was diagnosed with BPD and…
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Are you pissed off at someone with BPD?
UPDATE 10/2008: This post is quite old… but it still applies. However, if you want to know HOW to do some of the things I mention here, I have recently published the I-AM-MAD communication skill, which distills one of the main skills that I present in my book, When Hope is Not Enough. Hi all. I have been monitoring the “non” email lists and have found a common idea that I believe is a misconception about borderlines. A taste of this idea can be seen in this paraphrased comment: “When will my BP be willing to take responsibility for his/her actions? When will he/she try and fix the harm he/she has…
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Tools and the Borderline
Tools and the Borderline I found this post to the thread “Author of Eggshells Workbook is a Moron” from a cached copy of the “Crazy Talk” web forum. Unfortunately, the Crazy Talk board has moved to a new server and the old threads were not carried over. I guess Google will maintain it in their cache for a while. The thread itself is a quite interesting version of several borderlines’ views on the SWOE workbook. Here is a particularly insightful post responding to the idea that borderlines are “manipulative”: I don’t think that, in most cases anyway, that the “manipulative” BPD behavior is deliberately so, despite appearances – thus it…
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Va Tech Killer and Emotional Dysregulation
The Virginia Tech shootings made me want to say a thing or two. There was immediate a lot of talk about gun control and of the shooter’s ability to buy guns and ammunition despite having been found by a court to be a danger to himself and others. I think that the pundits should discuss the real issue here and it is not gun control. While it may still be a good idea to have stricter gun laws, it is not the gun that did the killing; it was Cho himself that used the guns as a tool of murder. The true problem was that Cho was mentally ill and…