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Management Strategies To Minimize Suicide Risk in Borderline Patients
Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) can present with multiple crises and minor incidents of self-harm or threats, but determining when the actions are true cause for concern can be a challenge. Assessing the patient’s current state of being, recent stressors, alcohol(Drug information on alcohol) misuse, and support system can inform the health care provider about immediate risk. Similarly, below are suggested strategies that psychiatrists in various roles can employ to help reduce the risk of suicide. This Tipsheet is for quick reference only and not a replacement for the psychiatrist’s experience and training, which are at the heart of what determines the severity of a psychiatric patient’s condition. For further information,…
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Over the Borderline: Treatment for BPD and Substance Abuse First Hand
Treatments for borderline personality disorder and alcoholism are similar. But dealing with one doesn’t fix the other. My horror at being diagnosed with BPD turned to relief. Finally I knew what was wrong with me. All those times I had been berated by my family for being self-destructive or flaky or dramatic were all explained by this one disorder. The apologies came flooding in. I forwarded the BPD links to my father, mother, and multiple step mothers and they all apologized for judging me, for misunderstanding, for making light of what turned out to be a serious condition. But that didn’t really solve the problem of having yet another condition…
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Validation and Empowerment: The necessary balance for self help
Steven Stosny has a (fairly) new post on “Validation and Empowerment” which covers emotional validation vs. the empowerment necessary to change for the better. I like Stony’s work quite a bit and I agree that there is a balance between emotional validation and empowerment. When dealing with people that have been emotionally invalidated, it is my opinion that the balance initially should be tipped toward emotional validation. This is why DBT adds acceptance to the mix. If everything needs to change all at once, the thought of changing everything seems overwhelming and nothing changes – there’s no empowerment to improve and become effective. Instead, the person is stuck in helplessness. In my…
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As Olympic golden girl Victoria Pendleton admits self-harming… the secret pressures driving so many teenage girls to cut
Recent research suggests that between one in 12 and one in 15 British teenagers is known to self-harm, while the number of children being admitted to hospital in England with self-inflicted injuries has increased by 68 per cent in the past decade. As Olympic golden girl Victoria Pendleton admits self-harming… the secret pressures driving so many teenage girls to cut By Antonia Hoyle PUBLISHED: 16:58 EST, 5 September 2012 | UPDATED: 12:26 EST, 6 September 2012 Anguish: ‘I hated my body and wanted to hurt it,’ says Megan Amy Feltham took a deep breath and ran her penknife across her arm. As the blade pierced her skin and blood seeped…
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Friends of teacher who hanged herself hit out at hospital which ‘failed to keep her safe’
Jessica Philpott, 38, who suffered from Borderline Personality Disorder, had been a voluntary patient at Mill View Hospital in Hove, East Sussex, which had previously been reviewed over patient suicides. ‘Her death should never have happened’: Friends of teacher who hanged herself hit out at hospital which ‘failed to keep her safe’ Jessica Philpott, 38, had made two apparent attempts to hang herself on the ward on the night she was found but was still allowed out unsupervised Staff allegedly told a patient that they thought she was attention-seeking and hadn’t actually wanted to kill herself By CLAIRE ELLICOTT Friends of a former teacher who was found hanging at a…
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Bullying linked with borderline personality disorder in children
UK study results suggest that children who are bullied by their peers in primary school have an increased risk for developing borderline personality disorder (BPD) during childhood. Bullying linked with borderline personality disorder in children (Link) By Lauretta Ihonor, MedWire Reporter UK study results suggest that children who are bullied by their peers in primary school have an increased risk for developing borderline personality disorder (BPD) during childhood. And this appears to remain true irrespective of the type of bullying experienced by the child, say Dieter Wolke, from the University of Warwick in Coventry, and co-authors. They add: “In particular, children who were exposed to combined (overt and relational) or…