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The Scarlet Label: Close Encounters with ‘Borderline Personality Disorder’
If so-called ‘borderline personality disorder’ symptoms are really responses to an unpredictable and perhaps unsafe environment then the real shame of it is that we are stigmatizing people that disclose the pain of our human world. We are judging people who have sensitive dispositions and absorb the world around them; people who are essentially struggling with basic life issues. And as a system – the mental health system – that sort of prides itself on exploring human behavior without judgment, this is a failure — not on our client’s part, but on the part of professionals and systems that are supposed to be caring for them. The Scarlet Label: Close…
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Child of Parent with BPD?
Inability to express or regulate emotions, difficulties establishing and maintaining relationships, and feelings of guilt, shame and emptiness were also noted among children of parents with borderline personality disorder. Understanding the impact of parents’ mental illness Research from the University of Adelaide has found that the children of parents suffering from an emotionally unstable form of personality disorder are at risk of developing behavioural and emotional issues – but the children can also be protected from experiencing similar difficulties to their parents. For her PhD research, Dianna Bartsch in the University’s School of Psychology has surveyed clinicians who work with parents who have been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD)…
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A Musical About Borderline Personality Disorder
Rehearsing scenes from “Borderline,” a musical: Cecilia Dintino is an actual clinical psychologist; Jill Powell, an actress with borderline personality disorder, is one of her patients. Therapist and Patient Share a Theater of Hurt By COREY KILGANNONNOV. 5, 2014 It was not easily recognizable as therapy, these two women screaming at each other, their faces inches apart, during a rehearsal in a basement space in Greenwich Village. The patient, a blond woman with spiky hair and spiky heels: Jill Powell, 49, an actress who had fallen on hard times. The other woman, more reserved in dress and demeanor, was Cecilia Dintino, 56, a clinical psychologist. But this particular scene had…
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I was suicidal. I needed help.
A year after her initial diagnosis, Mattocks was finally given dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT) which was “the first treatment that genuinely helped.” An insight into youth mental health services: ‘I was suicidal. I needed help’ The health select committee has found ‘serious and deeply engrained problems’ in mental health services for young people At age 14, Nikki Mattocks began to hear voices in her head that drove her to self-harm. Plagued with suicidal thoughts, she sought help from her school and GP, but she was not immediately referred to a mental health professional. The next six months, before she was diagnosed, was a blur of suicide attempts and trips to…
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If physical illness was treated like mental illness
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