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DBT Skill of the Day: Teflon Mind from Mindfulness Module
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD). Yet, it also can be helpful for non-BPDs and for people with problematic emotional states. Today, I will talk about a DBT skill called “Teflon Mind”. What is Teflon Mind? Teflon Mind is a skill within the Core Mindfulness Module of DBT. DBT is comprised of 4 “modules”: Core Mindfulness Emotional Regulation Interpersonal Effectiveness Distress Tolerance Teflon Mind is part of the “Observe” portion of DBT’s Mindfulness. Teflon Mind is intended to prevent emotional dysregulation, defensiveness and judgmental responses. When we use Teflon Mind you: Notice what is happening around you and not react immediately or reflexively. Let…
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The BPD-o-Meter: Lindsay Lohan arrested in New York, accused of punching woman
Actress Lindsay Lohan was arrested outside a New York nightclub on an assault charge early Thursday after she punched another woman in the face, police said. Bon: Oh, Lindsay… time to get some minders. It’s been a while since I wrote anything on celebs with possible BPD. For more info about Lindsay click here. Lindsay Lohan arrested in New York, accused of punching woman REUTERS – Actress Lindsay Lohan was arrested outside a New York nightclub on an assault charge early Thursday after she punched another woman in the face, police said. Lohan and the 28-year-old unidentified woman had some sort of dispute inside the club Avenue in Manhattan around…
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NY Times: Thinking Clearly About Personality Disorders
This weekend the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association will vote on whether to adopt a new diagnostic system for some of the most serious, and striking, syndromes in medicine: personality disorders. Thinking Clearly About Personality Disorders By BENEDICT CAREY For years they have lived as orphans and outliers, a colony of misfit characters on their own island: the bizarre one and the needy one, the untrusting and the crooked, the grandiose and the cowardly. Their customs and rituals are as captivating as any tribe’s, and at least as mystifying. Every mental anthropologist who has visited their world seems to walk away with a different story, a new…
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Neuropsychiatric Mechanisms of Change in Mentalization Based Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder (MENTAB)
Fifty female patients diagnosed with BPD, who will undergo a year of intensive Mentalization Based Therapy at the Psychiatric Clinic Roskilde, Denmark, and a matched healthy control subjects matched on age, gender and socioeconomic status. Neuropsychiatric Mechanisms of Change in Mentalization Based Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder (MENTAB) Purpose: Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a complex psychiatric disease of uncertain aetiology and pathogenesis. A key mechanism of disease susceptibility and treatment response could be epigenetic changes in DNA methylation patterns. However, no study has yet demonstrated that psychotherapy can exert its therapeutic effect through epigenetic mechanisms. The main aim of this study is to analyze the promoter methylation pattern of…
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What I Inherited – A story of addiction, mental illness and recovery
When everything in your life is going swimmingly but you’re bed-bound and Googling “how to make a hangman’s noose,” not so normal. What I Inherited Want to know if genetics plays a role in both addiction and mental illness? Just take a glance at my family tree. By Amy Dresner 11/04/12 When I was young and full of hope and promise, I didn’t think twice about all the mental illness and addiction throughout my family. I was an only child and I thought, “I will be the exception to the rule.” And I really believed it. But as I got older and the therapists, medications and rehabs started to pile…
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Specific Brain Region Tied to Empathy
Now that we know the specific brain mechanisms associated with empathy, we can translate these findings into disease categories and learn why these empathic responses are deficient in neuropsychiatric illnesses, such as autism. Specific Brain Region Tied to Empathy (read the Article at PsychCentral) By TRACI PEDERSEN Associate News Editor Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on October 26, 2012 An international team of researchers has demonstrated, for the first time, that a particular area of the brain — called the anterior insular cortex — is where human empathy originates. “Now that we know the specific brain mechanisms associated with empathy, we can translate these findings into disease categories and…