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What BPD Feels Like
Excellent article about what BPD feels like: What BPD Feels like A lot of friends and family members want to understand what the BPD sufferer is going through, but they don’t have a proper understanding of what is actually happening. For the BPD sufferer it is hard to explain what it feels like when honestly, they don’t know exactly what it is that isn’t “normal”. People around the BPD sufferer know that something isn’t right with the person, but quite often the sufferer does not know there is anything wrong, which is why they can attack you when you suggest there may be. As a BP sufferer myself, I can…
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Cleaned up links on ATSTP
Hello all, Today I cleaned up the links on ATSTP. I found that several of the links were dead and the directory links were linking out to spammy sites. I will have to check those more frequently. It’s been a while since I did a manual check of them. I think they are cleaner now. Enjoy! No related posts.
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BPD: What’s in a Name and How does it feel to be that person?
Recently Rajkumar Kalapatapu, et al., released a report in which they hosted an Internet-based survey to ask people with BPD what they wanted to see in the next version of the DSM with respect to BPD. As many of you know, scores of people find BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder) stigmatizing and confusing, since the term “borderline” was adopted to indicate “on the border between neurosis and psychosis” (although some indicate that it refers to “borderline schizophrenia” – although no correlation between BPD and schizophrenia exists as far as I am aware) and “personality” often connotes a “character-flaw” or something that is immutable and incurable. The only part of the name…
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A Preoccupation with Interpersonal Relationships
This feature is a new one that I have added to my “model” of BPD. I added it because I was attending the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ISSPD) and listened to Dr. John Gunderson present a detailed model of his experience with BPD. The purpose of the presentation was to present a “real world” clinical model of BPD from the viewpoint of someone with many years of experience treating the disorder. One of the features that Dr. Gunderson provided was this “preoccupation with attachments.” I believe this feature is born of an unstable sense of self. A person with BPD has difficulty “locating herself in the…
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Substance Abuse and BPD – Poll Results
Today, I closed the poll regarding substance abuse and Borderline Personality Disorder. I got results I expected – 76% of respondents said the substance abuse was an issue with their loved one with BPD (or themselves of they had BPD). Statistics in the medical/research community vary widely, some cite a number of 54%, others more like 75% (which is what I suspected). I think that substances are used in an impulsive manner in BPD and they are used to quell emotional pain or to “stop the mind” (from worry thoughts or ruminating). Anyway, the results were not a surprise at all. Of course, as always, this is not a scientific poll.…