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Student draws on pain to help children
“It got so bad that it aggravated the illness to the point where I had a mental breakdown in class,” he said. Two years ago, he was diagnosed with an accompanying borderline personality disorder. Student draws on pain to help children Saturday, Mar 28, 2015 The Straits Times By Calvin Yang Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP) student Chia Xun An, 23, was diagnosed with clinical depression when he was just 10. He had low moods, erratic behaviour and struggled to get out of bed. “I used to take five hours to get out of bed and go to school. School started at 7.30am, but I usually reached (school) around lunchtime,” said…
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Rick Warren Asks for Prayers as He Readies to Preach Easter Messages on Anniversary of Son’s Suicide
Warren’s son, Matthew, committed suicide on April 5, 2013. He was 27. Matthew had been suffering from clinical depression and borderline personality disorder since birth. Rick Warren Asks for Prayers as He Readies to Preach Easter Messages on Anniversary of Son’s Suicide By Amy Jacobs 02 April, 2015 2:49 PM Rick Warren has a prayer request. The Southern California megachurch pastor is getting ready to preach at multiple services and celebrate Easter this weekend but the problem is: Easter falls on the day his son ended his life two years ago. “On a day where everything in me wants to be quiet and low key, be alone at home with…
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The Biology of Borderline (and a Diagnostic Tip)
The importance of gathering sufficient information for diagnosis is particularly important for borderline personality disorder (BPD), which encompasses multiple symptoms that overlap across many diagnoses in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), making its identification challenging. The Biology of Borderline (and a Diagnostic Tip) Derick E. Vergne, MD March 23, 2015 Diagnosis in psychiatry continues to be based on observation. However, economic forces are driving the norm of inaccurate diagnoses after an initial interview lasting less than an hour. To that extent clinicians are taught to rely heavily on the history documented in a patient’s medical chart, the diagnostic information found in all records is the result…
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Teens and Cutting, What’s Going On?
A World Health Organization (WHO) survey in England reported a three-fold increase over the last decade in the number of adolescents (ages 11, 13, and 15) who have self-harmed. Teens and Cutting, What’s Going On? Uploaded: Mar 29, 2015 By Caroline Fleck When I was in high school, there were rumors about kids who cut themselves or had attempted suicide. These were serious allegations with serious social implications. Not surprisingly, these rumors were few and far between. While training to become a psychologist, I decided to specialize in treatments for self-injury and suicidality. Although I liked working with adolescents, there wasn’t a lot of research on treatments for adolescents with…
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Self injury is not for seeking attention
“There is a strong relationship between depression and high-risk behaviors,” says Pamela Cantor, PhD. Self injury is not for seeking attention I have a fifteen year old daughter. She is a bright student from all these years. She started cutting her wrist, thighs and other body parts since a year. From childhood, she was a non obedient kid, but from last few months it has been increasing. It has come to my knowledge that she is being bullied and teased at school. I tried talking to school management but she is still unhappy. She has drastic mood swings which are resulting in hurting herself. I believe that she is doing…
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Misdiagnoses More Common for Socially Disadvantaged Groups
Conversely, if the client is African American, the same symptoms might be seen as proof of the client’s persistent borderline personality disorder. Misdiagnoses More Common for Socially Disadvantaged Groups Mar 25, 2015 Rachel Lutz Socially disadvantaged groups are twice as likely to receive mental health misdiagnoses, according to research published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science. Researchers from the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel focused on mental health clinics serving low to middle class populations, and specifically patients who were Jews of Asian/African descent (Mizrahi) and Jews of European/American descent (Ashkenazi) in 3 cities in Israel. The researchers investigated the accuracy of diagnostic decisions, which they believed were…