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The power of patterns. Why your borderline loved one may think you’re trying to hurt them
Here is a Ted Talk by Michael Shermer on the pattern-finding power of the human brain. After I watched this video, I was struck that this is probably why people with Borderline Personality Disorder or just highly sensitive people develop the belief that people are out to hurt them or that they are being judged and degraded by others. You can purchase a copy of his latest book at Amazon below. No related posts.
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Borderline patients unfairly labelled violent
Most people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are not violent, contrary to the overwhelming body of research, which has unduly focused on those already in the justice system, a systematic review has found. Borderline patients unfairly labelled violent January 20, 2012 By Mary Anne Kenny Most people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are not violent, contrary to the overwhelming body of research, which has unduly focused on those already in the justice system, a systematic review has found. “Although this may be the case in some patients, they are likely the minority of individuals with BPD,” the researchers from the University of Toronto wrote in Current Psychiatry Reports. “The diagnosis…
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Love and Opium. Borderline Personality Disorder and pain-killers
In psychiatry we have a a whole recipe book of diagnoses called the DSM IV-TR, soon to be replaced by the DSM-V. The original DSM was derived from an army handbook used by psychiatrists in WWII, much of which was taken from handbooks developed by German psychiatrists from their observations in the late 19th century. The rest of the army handbook was derived from psychoanalytic thinking — the theories of Freud and his followers. In the DSM I (1952), there were two kinds of illnesses, for the most part, psychosis and neurosis. Psychotic illnesses were defined by a break from reality (as in paranoid or religious delusions in schizophrenia or…
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The Emotionally Sensitive Person (ESP)
An Emotionally Sensitive Person is one who experiences more intense emotions than most other people do. When someone is emotionally sensitive, they often hear statements like “Stop overreacting,” or “You’re so dramatic.” Many are labeled as being “too sensitive” because their emotional reactions are quicker, last longer, and are stronger than other people expect. The Emotionally Sensitive Person By Karyn Hall, PhD An Emotionally Sensitive Person is one who experiences more intense emotions than most other people do. When someone is emotionally sensitive, they often hear statements like “Stop overreacting,” or “You’re so dramatic.” Many are labeled as being “too sensitive” because their emotional reactions are quicker, last longer, and…
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From neurology to psychiatry
Your emotional state has powerful control over your body — and Kim Bullock, MD, knows just how strong that hold can be. The Stanford psychiatrist works with patients who experience seizures that aren’t generated from the electrical brain storms of epilepsy, but instead are driven by their own psychological turmoil. From neurology to psychiatry: Bullock probes mysterious seizures January 9th, 2012 in Psychology & Psychiatry Your emotional state has powerful control over your body — and Kim Bullock, MD, knows just how strong that hold can be. The Stanford psychiatrist works with patients who experience seizures that aren’t generated from the electrical brain storms of epilepsy, but instead are driven…
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When Nurses Catch Compassion Fatigue, Patients Suffer
An article from the Wall Street Journal that discusses compassion fatigue in nurses. I wrote about this syndrome and that of emotional burnout related to family members of those people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). When Nurses Catch Compassion Fatigue, Patients Suffer By LAURA LANDRO As a nurse in the cancer center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Wilhelmina Roney, 26, sometimes feels overwhelmed by demands from patients, even though she tries her best to care for them. During a rough week, patients may die in such quick succession that she barely has time to cope. With the help of an innovative program offered by the hospital, Ms. Roney says…