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Holy Moly! An article about the girl who doused her face in acid that actually gets it!
When I saw this article come through the Google news alerts I thought: “Oh no, an article that’s going to say ‘she did it for attention’ because she has BPD and they are attention-seeking.” I was mightily surprised when I read the article and realized that here’s someone that actually knows what she’s talking about. Why would Bethany Storro douse herself in acid? Experts try to explain When news broke Thursday that a Vancouver woman admitted dousing herself with powerful acid, causing severe facial burns, one question reverberated: Why would anyone do such a thing? Friday, a leading researcher in the field of self-harm discounted theories that Bethany Storro, 28,…
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When Hope is Not Enough enjoys a renaissance
This past month – August 2010 – my book “When Hope is Not Enough: a how-to guide for living with and loving someone with Borderline Personality Disorder” enjoyed the best sales of any since it was published over two years ago. I hope it is helping each of you in your relationships with people with BPD. The book’s approach is quite different that that of other well-known and best-selling books about loved ones of people with BPD. I sincerely hope that the book can help you as a loved one of someone with BPD or, if you have BPD, it can help your loved ones as well. [amazonshowcase_aae6001f3f5766bb5a55f3fb147c3088] No related…
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British Personality Survey shows 77% show signs of PD
Only 23% of the British Population is not personality disordered? Personality pathology recorded by severity: national survey Min Yang, MD, MPH Division of Psychiatry, School of Community Health Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham Jeremy Coid, MD, FRCPsych Queen Mary College, London, Forensic Psychiatry Research Unit, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London Peter Tyrer, MD Centre for Mental Health, Imperial College, London, UK Correspondence: Correspondence: Professor Peter Tyrer, Centre for Mental Health, Imperial College, St Dunstan’s Road, London W6 8RP, UK. Email: p.tyrer@imperial.ac.uk Declaration of interest P.T. is the Chair of the World Psychiatric Association Section on Personality Disorders and the Chair of the World Health Organization Personality Disorder Working Group for the…