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From hellish cycles to stability: A mental health story
“One in four people will have mental illness,” she said, in their lifetime. That’s a lot of people. From hellish cycles to stability: A mental health story Stephanie Dickrell Eventually, she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. “People think of you for (your diagnosis). You shouldn’t live your diagnosis. That’s what I’m trying to get out to people,” she said. But it didn’t start there. Hagfors had a hard time making and keeping friends as a child. Borderline personality disorder isn’t something that just happens. It develops over time via the environment, usually in childhood. “I was very emotional growing up. Like every…
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The history of the concept of borderline personality disorder
The individual with BPD oscillates violently between dejection and disillusionment and episodes of euphoria and explosive episodes of irritability, impulsive anger and self-destructive behavior. The history of the concept of borderline personality disorder Daniel Calder The diagnostic label “borderline” is perhaps the most controversial in the history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis. While it was relatively recently formally classified as a personality disorder in the DSM-III, the term “borderline” has historically been used to designate a kind of mid-point between non-psychotic mental illness and psychosis. Unlike personality disorders such as avoidant personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder, furthermore, the “borderline” syndrome has not always been associated with specific symptoms, but, instead,…
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What it’s like to live with Borderline Personality Disorder
These external acts are based in self-loathing or self-hatred and feelings that you are not good enough. You feel this so deeply that you can’t control your actions. What it’s like to live with Borderline Personality Disorder Meet Sonia Neale. She’s 45. The recipient of SANE Australia’s inaugural 2014 Barbara Hocking Fellowship. And a sufferer of Borderline Personality Disorder. by Michael Sheather Aug 27, 2015 BPD is a personality disorder of extreme emotions. When you have somebody criticize you or judge you or say something about you, it triggers a response that is simple horrendous and over the top. It might be shouting or anger and resentment in terms of…
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A New Perspective on the Pathophysiology of Borderline Personality Disorder: A Model of the Role of Oxytocin
A New Perspective on the Pathophysiology of Borderline Personality Disorder: A Model of the Role of Oxytocin Sabine C. Herpertz, , M.D., Katja Bertsch, , Ph.D. Borderline personality disorder is characterized by three domains of dysfunction: affect dysregulation, behavioral dyscontrol, and interpersonal hypersensitivity. Interpersonal hypersensitivity is associated with a (pre)attentive bias toward negative social information and, on the level of the brain, enhanced bottom-up emotion generation, while affect dysregulation results from abnormal top-down processes. Additionally, the problems of patients with borderline personality disorder in interpersonal functioning appear to be related to alterations in the (social) reward and empathy networks. There is increasing evidence that the oxytocinergic system may be involved…
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The Death Treatment
He recently approved the euthanasia of a twenty-five-year-old woman with borderline personality disorder who did not “suffer from depression in the psychiatric sense of the word,” he said. “It was more existential; it was impossible for her to have a goal in this life.” The Death Treatment When should people with a non-terminal illness be helped to die? Letter from Belgium JUNE 22, 2015 ISSUE In her diary, Godelieva De Troyer classified her moods by color. She felt “dark gray” when she made a mistake while sewing or cooking. When her boyfriend talked too much, she moved between “very black” and “black!” She was afflicted with the worst kind of…
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Multi-national research identifies behaviors associated with suicide
Borderline personality disorder and substance abuse disorder were comorbid diagnoses most commonly associated with attempted suicide. Multi-national research identifies behaviors associated with suicide Research presented at the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology Congress indicate behavior patterns associated with suicide, which may aid clinicians in identifying patients who will eventually attempt suicide. Dina Popovic, PhD, of the University of Barcelona in Barcelona, and colleagues conducted standard mental health interviews among 2,811 patients with depression — 628 of whom had attempted suicide — to identify history of suicide, family history, current and previous treatment, clinical presentation and Global Assessment of Functioning scale scores. Analysis indicated depressive mixed states often preceded attempted suicide, as…