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Princess Di and BPD
Princess Di's biography says that she probably did have Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).
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Results from my latest poll
Last year, I launched a poll asking my readers how they are related to a person with BPD. The choices were: Self Spouse Non-Spouse Partner Child Parent Sibling or Other Relation Friend Ex-Partner or Ex-Spouse I got 141 votes from 102 voters (you could choose more than one relationship if you had more than one). I have now closed that poll and wanted to present the results. I have two graphs that represent the results of that poll. One is a straight results graph: Which shows that the spouse category is the largest at about 22%. However, in the next graph I combined spouse, non-spouse partner and ex-partner (or spouse)…
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BPD more prevelant than previously thought?
When I was reading the Time article on BPD – which is cited below and provides a nice new overview of BPD – I was struck by this quotation: A 2008 study of nearly 35,000 adults in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry found that 5.9%–which would translate into 18 million Americans–had been given a BPD diagnosis. As recently as 2000, the American Psychiatric Association believed that only 2% had BPD. (In contrast, clinicians diagnose bipolar disorder and schizophrenia in about 1% of the population.) BPD has long been regarded as an illness disproportionately affecting women, but the latest research shows no difference in prevalence rates for men and women. Regardless…
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Interesting Article from Time Magazine on BPD
Here is a new article from Time magazine on Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): Thursday, Jan. 08, 2009 Minds on The Edge By John Cloud/Seattle Doctors used to have poetic names for diseases. A physician would speak of consumption because the illness seemed to eat you from within. Now we just use the name of the bacterium that causes the illness: tuberculosis. Psychology, though, remains a profession practiced partly as science and partly as linguistic art. Because our knowledge of the mind’s afflictions remains so limited, psychologists–even when writing in academic publications–still deploy metaphors to understand difficult disorders. And possibly the most difficult of all to fathom–and thus one of the…
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Kids of BPD – or kobies
Recently, I noticed that one of my list members created kobies.org – which is a site dedicated to kids of Borderline Personality Disorder parents. My own kids represent part of this group. What I found was that his site was sending me about 3 times the traffic I was sending him. So, I wanted to highlight his site: www.kobies.org. Enjoy! (ok, if you’re a kid of a BP you might not be enjoying, but hopefully it will help). UPDATE: www.kobies.org seems to not longer be available. I don’t know why as of yet. No related posts.
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Learned Helplessness versus Stockholm Syndrome
Today, a member of my list posted an excerpt from Randi Kreger’s new book about why people stay in abusive relationships. Randi mentioned Stockholm Syndrome as a possible reason. I am currently writing a new edition of my book When Hope is No Enough. I cover the concept of Stockholm Syndrome and why I think it doesn’t apply BPD/Non-BP relationships. Here is an unedited excerpt from my second edition about this subject: Learned Helplessness and PTSD Another concept that is new to this edition is the idea of learned helplessness and PTSD as Non-BP’s. Personally, I think this concept applies to both people with BPD and those who loved them.…