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Borderline personality disorder patients may use less effective defense mechanisms
People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often have trouble dealing with emotions. Defending Against Unpleasant Feelings Borderline personality disorder patients may use less effective defense mechanisms (dailyRx News) People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often have trouble dealing with emotions. The way people with BPD deal with unpleasant emotions may affect their recovery. A recent study looked at how people with BPD defended against unwanted feelings. Then, they compared BPD patients to people with other personality disorders. People with BPD more often used less helpful defenses. These defenses were linked to longer time to recovery. People with BPD who used humor had shorter recovery times. The authors suggested that therapy…
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New insights into the borderline personality brain
The hallmark symptom that people describe is emotion dysregulation — you’re happy one moment, and the next moment you’re feeling angry or sad or depressed. People with BPD can cycle through emotions, usually negative ones, quite rapidly. New insights into the ‘borderline personality’ brain (link) New work by University of Toronto Scarborough researchers gives the best description yet of the neural circuits that underlie a severe mental illness called Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), and could lead to better treatments and diagnosis. The work shows that brain regions that process negative emotions (for example, anger and sadness) are overactive in people with BPD, while brain regions that would normally help damp…
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Borderline personality disorder: The “perfect storm” of emotion dysregulation
The investigators describe two critical brain underpinnings of emotion dysregulation in borderline personality disorder Borderline personality disorder: The “perfect storm” of emotion dysregulation Philadelphia, PA, January 15, 2013 – Originally, the label “borderline personality disorder” was applied to patients who were thought to represent a middle ground between patients with neurotic and psychotic disorders. Increasingly, though, this area of research has focused on the heightened emotional reactivity observed in patients carrying this diagnosis, as well as the high rates with which they also meet diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder and mood disorders. New research now published in Biological Psychiatry from Dr. Anthony Ruocco at the University of Toronto and his colleagues…
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Study: Expressing negative emotions could extend lifespan
German researchers just published a study that shows statistically that people who constrain themselves and don’t express anger live on average 2 years shorter than individuals who do. Expressing negative emotions could extend lifespan German researchers just published a study that shows statistically that people who constrain themselves and don’t express anger live on average 2 years shorter than individuals who do. Researchers Marcus Mund and Kristin Mitte at the University of Jena in Germany analyzed data from more than 6,000 patients to find that exhibiting self-restraint and holding back negative emotions could have serious repercussions for a person’s physical and mental well-being – those who internalized their anxiety suffered…