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Unpleasant Words Trigger Strong Startle Response in People with Borderline Personality Disorder
Adults with borderline personality disorder (BPD) showed excessive emotional reactions when looking at words with unpleasant meanings compared to healthy people during an emotionally stimulating task, according to NIMH-funded researchers. Potential physiological marker for a severe mental disorder Science Update • August 22, 2007 Adults with borderline personality disorder (BPD) showed excessive emotional reactions when looking at words with unpleasant meanings compared to healthy people during an emotionally stimulating task, according to NIMH-funded researchers. They also found that people with more severe BPD showed a greater difference in emotional responding compared to people with less severe BPD. The study was published in the August 1, 2007, issue of Biological Psychiatry.…
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Seattle Hosts Ground-breaking International Training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Created by Dr. Marsha Linehan of The University of Washington
Seattle Hosts Ground-breaking International Training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Created by Dr. Marsha Linehan of The University of Washington Seattle, WA (PRWEB) July 18, 2013 Behavioral Tech, LLC (BTECH), based in Seattle and created to bring the benefits of Dr. Marsha Linehan’s research to the world of professionals serving people suffering from mental illness, is hosting the first-ever Dialectical Behavior Therapy Intensive Training TM designed specifically for independent mental health care practitioners. Private mental health providers have gathered this week in Seattle from all over the world to learn from Dr. Linehan, the creator of DBT, and her team of expert trainers at BTECH. Cited as one of the…
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Mental disorder seen as ‘badness, not sickness’
Many clinicians regard borderline personality disorder as untreatable trouble By Bruce Bower Web edition: August 14, 2013 NEW YORK CITY — Psychiatrists regularly get criticized for turning typical life problems into medical disorders. But in an odd reversal, many mental health clinicians are trying to transform one certified mental illness, borderline personality disorder, into a label for needy, manipulative people who don’t need treatment, a sociologist reported at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting on August 11. Patients with borderline personality disorder, unlike people with schizophrenia or other serious mental conditions, are often viewed by mental health providers as having cynically planned out rash acts and even suicide attempts, sociologist…
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How to Tell the Difference Between Borderline Personality Disorder and Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder have some symptoms in common, but are two very different diseases. It’s important to understand the difference between borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder, in order to help yourself or someone you love get the right treatment. Each of these two mental disorders is often misdiagnosed as the other, because the difference between borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder, in terms of symptoms, can be so subtle. Bipolar disorder causes its victims to cycle through mania, a mental state characterized by feelings of invulnerability, euphoria, and impulsivity, often followed by periods of severe depression marked by anxiety, aggression, irritability, suicide attempts or self-harming episodes.…
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Casey Johnson desperately tried to contact her billionaire Jets owner father
Revealed: Casey Johnson desperately tried to contact her billionaire Jets owner father before her sudden death at 30 – after he cut her off when she came out as a lesbian, adopted a baby and refused to stop partying Casey Johnson, heiress to Johnson & Johnson, died from complications from diabetes in January 2010 when she was just 30 Her mother, Sale Johnson, has revealed Casey’s hard partying lifestyle and troubles stemmed from borderline personality disorder Her father, Woody Johnson, cut her out after a string of public spats – and he never reconnected with her despite her repeated efforts New details have emerged in biography about the dynasty’s scandals…
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Ambiguity is the greatest threat
In 2009, I attended the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ISSPD) in New York. Dr. Glen Gabbard, MD, a psychiatrist and clinician that treats people with Borderline Personality Disorder (#BPD). About halfway through his presentation, Dr. Gabbard said: “Ambiguity is the greatest threat.” He was speaking in the context of a clinician treating someone with BPD. Many studies have show that people with BPD react to neutral facial expressions as if the person is angry. People with BPD interpret neutral faces as angry. I once saw a woman with BPD view a picture of a neutral face and she said, “He’s angry with me.” Dr. Gabbard was suggesting to…