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Borderline personality disorder: Why ‘just calm down’ doesn’t work
Those suffering from BPD will experience impulsive thoughts, reckless decision making and trouble with successfully regulating emotions Borderline personality disorder: Why ‘just calm down’ doesn’t work BY KELLIE PLUMHOF · OCTOBER 23, 2014 We all have days when we feel like our emotions don’t make sense. We are way up high right before we come crashing down. For someone living with Borderline Personality Disorder these feelings never leave. Borderline Personality Disorder, or what is more commonly known as BPD, is a mental illness that is characterized by instability. Prior to 1980 Borderline Personality was not even a diagnosable disease. It wasn’t until 1980 that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for…
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Estranged Daughter Writes of Mother’s BPD
When I found out, in 2006, that she’d drained my trust fund, I was horrified. But on some level, I was also relieved: so much of the nightmare of my relationship with my mother had happened in secret that I struggled to know if it was even real. But now I knew it was. Now, I had proof, and I could finally leave her, with a clean conscience. WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE ESTRANGED FROM YOUR MOTHER WHEN SHE HAS BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER GABRIELLE MOSS The last time I spoke to my mother was this past January. We had a mediated meeting with her psychiatrist, the three of us together…
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Overactive Midbrain and Stress Tolerance
From Nora Gedgaudas’s latest book “Rethinking Fatigue”: CHRONIC MIDBRAIN OVERACTIVATION When the reticular activating system is stimulated, it fires off in different directions, and at times particularly strong emotional reactions to events can become stuck in a self-perpetuating feedback loop. In other words, particularly pronounced reactions to traumatic or stressful events can cause the brain to become hardwired for stress. This can also lead to long-term anxiety-related issues. The overactivation of this area of the brain, say by a particularly upsetting, traumatizing event, can lead to a chronically exaggerated stress response. A person may become hypervigilant and have an exaggerated startle response or possibly other symptoms similar to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).…
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Mother chronicles daughter’s tragic struggle with Borderline Personality Disorder
Not long after she drew the gruesome accident picture at the age of nine, Colleen told her parents that she wanted to die. Many suicide attempts followed. Calgary mother chronicles daughter’s tragic struggle with Borderline Personality Disorder BY ERIC VOLMERS, CALGARY HERALD OCTOBER 3, 2014 When Colleen Porter was nine years old, her parents were summoned to school because of a picture she had drawn with crayons. Students had been asked to create something that pleased them, an exercise that usually produced predictable and mundane results. Not for Colleen. “It was a drawing of a car accident,” says Fran L. Porter, Colleen’s mother and author of the book When the…
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Borderline Personality Disorder in Strippers/Exotic Dancers?
A study by the director of the Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology program at the University of Pennsylvania found 55 percent of strippers are diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and 60 percent experience depression. Bon: The above quote is from an article about strippers/exotic dancers… BEYOND THE POLE: The hidden world of exotic dancers Andrew Paxton | Oct 02, 2014 By JAMIE VERWYS “Looking to round up the finest 18 and over girls in Tucson, cash nightly.” Advertisements promising college women wads of cash for flashing serious skin aren’t hard to find. The call for exotic dancers can be found by picking up a copy of Tucson Weekly or Pima Community…
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Interesting Study on Self-Injury and Borderline Personality Disorder
Among the BPD factors, emotion dysregulation and disturbed relatedness were both associated with non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) history, but only disturbed relatedness was associated with NSSI frequency. The relationship between non-suicidal self-injury and borderline personality disorder symptoms in a college sample Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a major concern in both clinical and non-clinical populations. It has been approximated that 65-80% of individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) engage in some form of NSSI.Despite such high co-morbidity, much still remains unknown about the relationship between NSSI and BPD symptomatology. The goal of the current study was to identify individual BPD symptoms and higher order BPD factors that increase one’s vulnerability of NSSI engagement…