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Book Review: Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder
Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder by Valerie Porr is perhaps the most up-to-date and complete book for family members of people with BPD published to date. When I read the book, I couldn’t help but think that Ms. Porr had the therapists and mental health professional more in mind than the family members. It appears as though she is trying to dispel many myths about BPD that exist not only in the family environment but also in the mental health community. This book is steeped in scientific research, including research involving the biological under-pinnings of BPD. It includes many skills for family members from both DBT and mentalization based therapy (MBT).…
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CNN Reports Internet Encouraging Self-harm
A report from CNN about self-harm/self-injury in teens: Websites may encourage self-injury in teens, young adults Young adults and teens may believe that hurting themselves is normal and acceptable after watching videos and other media on Web-sharing sites like YouTube, new research indicates. The findings, published in the journal Pediatrics, warn professionals and parents to be aware of the availability and dangers of such material for at-risk teens and young adults. Deliberate self-injury without the intent of committing suicide is called “nonsuicidal self-injury” or NSSI. An estimated 14% to 24% of youth and young adults engage in this destructive behavior, according to the study. NSSI can also include relationship challenges,…
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Was Lisbeth Salander supposed to have BPD?
An article about Stieg Larsson’s character Lisbeth Salander from the “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” hit trilogy. A quote: Larsson especially liked the idea about a grown up Pippi Longstocking, a dysfunctional girl with borderline personality, who would have had a hard time finding a regular place in the ‘normal society’ and he used part of those characteristics when he created Lisbeth Salander. Buy the books here: [amazonshowcase_0b3caea7976f0abd3e9f8078fd882606] No related posts.
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Some post-Valentine’s BPDish poetry
Something I stumbled across over the weekend. Talk about “I Hate You. Don’t Leave Me!” Emotional Idiot Maggie Estep I’m an Emotional Idiot so get away from me. I mean, COME HERE. Wait, no, that’s too close, give me some space it’s a big country, there’s plenty of room, don’t sit so close to me. Hey, where are you? I haven’t seen you in days. Whadya, having an affair? Who is she? Come on, aren’t I enough for you? God, You’re so cold. I never know what you’re thinking. You’re not very affectionate. I mean, you’re clinging to me, DON’T TOUCH ME, what am I, your fucking cat? Don’t rub…
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Development/Transmission of BPD: Genetic, Environmental or Cultural?
I was reading an article called “Social cognition in borderline personality disorder: evidence for disturbed recognition of the emotions, thoughts, and intentions of others” and noticed a line in the article that said this: “Thus, in addition to high heritability of BPD (Torgersen et al., 2008), these results argue that environmental factors (e.g., trauma) contribute to disturbed social cognition in BPD. In summary, for the current study we expected PTSD to be a negative predictor of social cognition.” That intrigued me on two levels. One was the “high heritability” part, because often I see comments about BPD and how many people believe that it is mainly caused by childhood trauma…
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Fox News Mental Health Guy Gets It Wrong on Lindsay Lohan
I read an article today about Lindsay Lohan from Fox News’ Dr. Keith Albow entitled “What Lindsay Lohan’s Parents Stole From Her”. While I can certainly understand Dr. Albow’s point at some level (although mostly I believe it was to attract readers to Fox with a catchy title about Lindsay Lohan’s situation), I have a problem with Dr. Albow’s analysis of Ms. Lohan’s parents. My problem has several facets to it, so you’ll have to bear with me as I go through them. The first part of my problem has to do with the “blaming the parents” aspect of mental health care and the attitude of mental health care professionals.…