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Bipolar Is Not Contagious (neither is Borderline)
When telling anyone that you have a severe mental illness, whether it be Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective or even Borderline Personality Disorder, they automatically assume you are crazy and they want nothing to do with you. Bipolar Is Not Contagious By REBECCA MOORE ~ 2 min read I can remember as a child not having very many friends. People avoided me right from the beginning of my life. Even my own parents and my brother. They knew something was just a bit off, a bit different and they wanted no part of whatever it was. Had I been given parents who weren’t so ignorant to mental illness, maybe at a…
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Watch: Bears’ Brandon Marshall appears in new mental health PSA
Chicago Bears wide receiver Brandon Marshall is part of a new public service announcement meant to raise awareness around the unique challenges that men face when discussing mental health. Watch: Bears’ Brandon Marshall appears in new mental health PSA Chicago Bears wide receiver Brandon Marshall is part of a new public service announcement meant to raise awareness around the unique challenges that men face when discussing mental health. The campaign is in partnership with Glenn Close’s non-profit organization Bring Change 2 Mind and also includes Edmonton Oilers goalie Ben Scrivens, musician Michael Angelakos and actor Wayne Brady. Marshall announced in 2011 that he was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and…
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Confronting Stigma: Borderline Personality Disorder
Emotions are often intense, and anger can seem explosive and reactive at times. Those with BPD tend to function in the extremes, especially in relationships. Confronting Stigma: Borderline Personality Disorder For many, getting the diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) comes as a relief. Finally, something to explain the mood swings, constant fear of abandonment, and relationship challenges. For others, it becomes an obstacle to treatment. Understandably, working with someone with BPD can be quite challenging, and often therapists allow only a few in their caseload. But new treatment approaches and an improved understanding of the disorder are giving sufferers and family members hope. According to National Education Alliance: Borderline…
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Borderline Personality Disorder: Open Letter to Emergency Department and Hospital Based Staff
Invalidating our feelings is like throwing petrol onto an already fierce raging fire. Bon: I think the same could be said of emotionally dysregulated moments with loved ones… Borderline Personality Disorder: Open Letter to Emergency Department and Hospital Based Staff By SONIA NEALE ~ 4 min read People with a diagnosis of BPD are often accused of manipulation and splitting in psychiatric settings. A quick Google search reveals that manipulation is the action of manipulating someone in a clever or unscrupulous way, the skilful handling, controlling or using of something or someone, to manage or influence skilfully, especially in an unfair manner, to manipulate people’s feelings. I have never felt…
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Managing Suicidality in Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder
In BPD, the most typical suicidal behavior is an overdose of pills, occurring in an interpersonal context. These overdoses usually carry a message—sometimes for a lover and sometimes for a therapist. Patients with BPD also tend to cut their wrists repetitively, and/or carry out other actions to hurt themselves. Managing Suicidality in Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder July 01, 2006 By Joel Paris, MD Suicidality is a defining feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD). It is also the feature that creates the most anxiety among those who treat patients with this disorder. It is rare to find patients with BPD who have never shown any suicidal behavior. As described in…
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Punishing people for mental illness is a return to the Dark Ages
My 22-year old daughter, diagnosed with bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder, has refused treatment for four years. She self-medicates with marijuana, methamphetamine, and alcohol. Occasionally, she gets caught using or possessing drugs and is thrown in a county jail. Punishing people for mental illness is a return to the Dark Ages By Rachel Pruchno POSTED: 01/17/2015 05:00:00 PM MST This week, jury selection will begin in Aurora in the case of James Holmes. Central to the case is whether people with serious mental illness should be treated or punished. Robert and Arlene Holmes acknowledge that some people view their son James as a monster. Certainly the rampage on July…