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When Hope is Not Enough now available on the Nook
My book When Hope is Not Enough: a how-to guide for living with and loving someone with Borderline Personality Disorder is now available on Barnes and Noble’s Nook. Now the book is available in most electronic platforms including the Kindle, the Nook, the iPad and in PDF form to read on a computer. It is also available in printed form through Amazon, Barnes and Noble and through the publisher Lulu, which has the lowest price currently. No related posts.
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BPD: What’s the Cost?
In a recent article/review of Borderline Personality Disorder treatment options and management methodologies, the author quotes the Dr. John Gunderson in the New England Journal of Medicine May 26 issue: “…BPD is present in about 6% of primary care patients and persons in community-based samples and in 15 to 20% of patients in psychiatric hospitals and outpatient clinics,” writes John G. Gunderson, MD, from the Psychosocial and Personality Research Program, McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. “Patients with BPD usually enter treatment facilities after suicide attempts or after episodes of deliberate self-injury. Such episodes result in an average hospital stay of 6.3 days per year and nearly 1 emergency room visit…
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I-AM-MAD Skill makes it to Partners in Wellness Blog
In the post “When Your Partner Says They Are In Pain, Validate” Kate Theda of the “Partners in Wellness” blog specifically used my I-AM-MAD communication skill to teach her readers about validation. Here is the intro for the log post: After a period of dealing with a partner’s mental illness, compassion fatigue can set in. Yes, you still love your partner. Yes, you still care that they are not feeling well. But it can become difficult to empathize after a while, and you begin to wonder, “When is this going to end?” While I can’t give you an answer on when–or if–the illness will abate, what I can tell you…
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Casey Anthony: Borderline Personality Disorder, a Psychopath or What?
A few days ago I got an email from a member of the ATSTP list asking me what I thought about the possibility of Casey Anthony, who is currently on trial for the murder of her 2 year old daughter (Caylee Anthony), having Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). In 2008, I was following the case with interest. I have followed it a bit during the trial. I am not a doctor or a mental health professional, yet I have met a LOT of people with BPD (both men and women) and members of their families. I’ve looked at Casey Anthony’s behavior and compared it with the behavior of people that I…
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A primer on Emotional Dysregulation and its role in Borderline Personality Disorder
What is important for Non-BPDs to realize about BPD-like conditions and disorders is that they have a core component in common, which is called emotional dysregulation. A disturbance to one’s emotional regulation system can exhibit itself in a number of ways, and the behavior of the borderline (a person with BPD) and the feelings of the Non-BPD are generally confused and misunderstood unless seen through a lens of emotional dysregulation. Emotional dysregulation is not a “grand excuse” to remove responsibility from a disordered person. No, it’s a “grand explanation” to explain the reflexive (yet often confusing) behavior of a disordered person. It’s a way of understanding the motivations (reflexive behavior to…
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A quick note to my Kindle subscribers
It was brought to my attention today by one of the Kindle subscribers that Amazon was incorrectly parsing my feed and not including the entries after May 25th. This seems to be because I posted a spotlight on emotional validation as an “announcement”, which means it stayed at the top of the blog and at the top of the feed. I am probably going to have to discuss this error with Amazon because I also use Twitter Feed and they don’t have this issue. In the meantime, I have moved the spotlight to a separate page. Any future spotlights will live on the spotlight page. I apologize for the interruption…