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Self-injury: ‘It’s been nearly 10 years since I last cut myself’
I was desperate to be a smarter, wittier, prettier, more successful version of myself. Self-injury: ‘It’s been nearly 10 years since I last cut myself’ By Susan Jennings This month marks the 10-year anniversary of the first column I ever wrote for the York Daily Record. I tend not to get too excited about anniversaries, but this one feels different. The column I wrote was about my own struggles with cutting. At 23, I was a mess. I was desperate to be a smarter, wittier, prettier, more successful version of myself. Terrified about not knowing what I should do or who I should be. Convinced I’d never live up to…
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The attitudes of psychiatric hospital staff toward hospitalization and treatment of patients with borderline personality disorder
Nurses and psychiatrists reported encountering a higher number of patients with BPD during the last month, and exhibited more negative attitudes and less empathy toward these patients than the other professions. The attitudes of psychiatric hospital staff toward hospitalization and treatment of patients with borderline personality disorder Ehud Bodner, Sara Cohen-Fridel, Mordechai Mashiah, Michael Segal, Alexander Grinshpoon, Tzvi Fischel and Iulian Iancu Background Negative attitudes towards patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) may affect their treatment. We aimed to identify attitudes toward patients with BPD. Methods Clinicians in four psychiatric hospitals in Israel (n=710; psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and nurses) were approached and completed questionnaires on attitudes toward these patients.…
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Borderline personality disorder is a hurtful label for real suffering – time we changed it
Research shows people seeking treatment for self-inflicted harm, including taking medication overdoses, are often seen as “difficult”, a “nuisance” or just indulging in “bad behaviour”. Borderline personality disorder is a hurtful label for real suffering – time we changed it Jayashri Kulkarni Professor of Psychiatry at Monash University Trigger warning: the following article has a graphic description of self-harm. Standing in the cold, dark bathroom, she hacked into her wrist with a razor blade and quietly stared at the blood that flowed from the cut. She told herself she was a bad person and deserved the pain. A part of her felt reassured by the sight of the blood –…
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Are DSM Psychiatric Disorders “Heritable”?
The authors of mainstream psychiatric and psychiatric genetic publications believe that the major psychiatric disorders are “moderately to highly heritable.” Are DSM Psychiatric Disorders “Heritable”? By JAY JOSEPH A key psychiatric genetic concept is heritability. The concept was originally developed as a tool to help predict the results of selective breeding programs of farm animals,1 but has been extended in the past few decades as an indicator of the strength or magnitude of genetic influences on various psychiatric disorders and behavioral characteristics. Numerical heritability estimates have been a mainstay of the field of behavioral genetics, but here I would like to focus on problems with the heritability concept in psychiatry,…
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Psychiatrists’ Fear of Death Linked to Negative Feelings Towards Certain Patients
While clinicians perceive mood disorders as curable and sympathy-evoking illnesses, BPD patients are considered more problematic, and are held accountable for their suicidal behaviors. Psychiatrists’ Fear of Death Linked to Negative Feelings Towards Certain Patients Around The Web July 11, 2015 A survey of 120 psychiatrists published in Psychiatry Research found that the more psychiatrists fear death, the more negative emotions they have towards people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. A team of Israeli researchers conducted statistical analyses on answers from psychiatrists to survey questions about their attitudes towards death generally and to suicide, and about their attitudes towards patients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. “In line with the hypothesis…
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Suicide Risk Often Undetected
It is noteworthy that every person who completed suicide who had a diagnosis of BPD had at least one previous suicide attempt. Suicide Risk Often Undetected Megan Brooks TORONTO ― Most people who die by suicide have no previous psychiatric diagnosis, new research shows. A single-center study from California found that nearly two thirds of persons who completed suicide during a 3-year period had no established psychiatric diagnosis. These findings suggest that “better detection of mental illness and treatment of at-risk patients may prevent completed suicides,” said Nisha Ramsinghani, DO, from the Community Regional Medical Center, Fresno, California. The findings also suggest that repeated suicide attempts are a “serious indicator…