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Study Will Evaluate Bipolar Medication in Treating Borderline Personality Disorder
The secondary outcomes are depressive symptoms, deliberate self-harm, social functioning, health-related quality of life, resource use and costs, side effects of treatment, adverse events, and withdrawal of trial medication due to adverse effects. Study Will Evaluate Bipolar Medication in Treating Borderline Personality Disorder Aug 12, 2015 | Bill Schu Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is challenging to diagnose and treat. As yet, there are no drugs currently licensed for BPD treatment. In fact, guidance from England’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommends that pharmacologic therapy not be used for patients with BPD at all. This is potentially troubling, because those patients typically experience rapid and extreme changes in mood,…
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Family smash Snowdon goal
I wanted to raise some awareness about mental health and for others not to suffer alone because getting the right help is part of getting better. Family smash Snowdon goal by Beth Wright AN INTREPID family have scaled Snowdown to raise money for a charity close to their hearts. Joe Lacks, joined by his dad Godfrey, brothers Simon and Paul Douglas, and friends Eddie Morgan and Scott Emes, tackled the mountain of a challenge to boost funds for mental health charity Mind. The team decided to embark on the hike after Joe was diagnosed with a borderline personality disorder in 2013. He said: “I wanted to raise some awareness about…
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What I learnt when I tried to kill myself
It’s all too easy to glamourise suicide once it’s happened. To pack out a funeral ceremony, dripping platitudes, telling everyone you “wish you’d known”. But if the potential suicide victim “fails”? What I learnt when I tried to kill myself What do you do when everyone knows what you did? By Charlotte Dingle A few weeks ago I joined the same exclusive club as Drew Barrymore, Eminem, Britney Spears and a host of other celebs. Like your average A-list party, there was plenty of booze and a few pills involved. There was a trip to casualty, too – again, not atypical. But this was a party of one. Mired in…
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Mental health labels can hamper treatment
The label “borderline personality disorder” was especially problematic, as professionals could assume the patient was damaged in all areas of life and close contact should be avoided. Mental health labels can hamper treatment DIAGNOSING patients with labels such as “personality disorder” and “schizophrenia” can lead to less effective treatments, research shows. UP to five people in every 100 are diagnosed with personality disorders in the UK, according to estimates, with one to three in every 100 living with schizophrenia. It is commonly believed such diagnoses are stigmatising and lead to negative perceptions by the public, family members and those with mental health problems. Previously, it had been assumed those working…
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When Hope is Not Enough, Second Edition Print Edition Available at Amazon
When Hope is Not Enough, Second Edition Print Edition Available at Amazon! In the next few days, I’ll retire the first edition. No related posts.
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How Borderline Personality Disorder Put an End to My Party Days (#BPD)
The negative emotions I have are immobilizing. They crash over me like huge waves, knocking the wind out of me and forcing me underwater. How Borderline Personality Disorder Put an End to My Party Days August 10, 2015 by Harriet Williamson In the summer of 2010, just before I turned 19 and in my first year of university, I attempted suicide with a month’s supply of my antidepressants and ended up in intensive care, breathing on a machine. By my second year, my good-time friends had had enough of me. I was no longer invited out, and became very isolated and increasingly unhappy. I got into an abusive relationship and…