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About.com Guide to BPD posts positive message about negativity in Non-BPDs
This is a post from About.com’s Dr. Kristalyn Salters-Pedneault, PhD regarding compassion for people with BPD. My reaction was “about time”! Yet the comments from this post are quite telling of the vitriol within the Non-BPD community: Have Compassion Thursday December 23, 2010 I feel compelled to write a post that is a bit more personal than usual. I have been About.com’s Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder for almost three years. I really love writing for this website– it’s a nice way to be able to share my expertise and knowledge with people who need it. I am often thanked by readers, but I have to tell you that I feel very…
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NY Times: Getting Mental Health Care for Others
An article from the NY Times about getting mental health care for others: Getting Someone to Psychiatric Treatment Can Be Difficult and Inconclusive By A. G. SULZBERGER and BENEDICT CAREY TUCSON —What are you supposed to do with someone like Jared L. Loughner? That question is as difficult to answer today as it was in the years and months and days leading up to the shooting here that left 6 dead and 13 wounded. Millions of Americans have wondered about a troubled loved one, friend or co-worker, fearing not so much an act of violence, but — far more likely — self-inflicted harm, landing in the streets, in jail or on suicide…
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Understanding Accountability and BPD
Often, I have had nons say to me that they want their borderlines to be accountable and responsible for their actions. I recently got a 1 star review of “When Hope is Not Enough” that indicated that the reviewer felt that my approach to BPD was a “recipe for walking on eggshells”. It’s clear to me that the reviewer didn’t really understand the content of my book. The reviewer went on to say that: This book doesn’t hold a BPD anywhere close to being responsible for her actions by granting the notion of “emotional dysregulation” a power of grand excuse. Clearly, the reviewer didn’t understand the idea of emotional dysregulation…