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Filmmaker Ida Storm Wants to Change the Face of Borderline Personality Disorder
Forget Winona in ‘Girl, Interrupted’. The young Norwegian spent years recording her own struggle with the illness on video, resulting in the eye-opening documentary ‘Being Ida.’ Filmmaker Ida Storm Wants to Change the Face of Borderline Personality Disorder by Zing Tsjeng OCT 9, 2015 12:05 PM Forget Winona in ‘Girl, Interrupted’. The young Norwegian spent years recording her own struggle with the illness on video, resulting in the eye-opening documentary ‘Being Ida.’ When I was at school, there was one easy and convenient way to diss someone’s choice of girlfriend. “Oh, I don’t know about her,” you’d say casually, “she’s a little borderline.” Reared on portrayals of bunny-boiling Glen Close…
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Borderline personality disorder: Study shows stigma a barrier to those seeking treatment
She struggled to regulate her emotions and often found herself getting very upset and angry over small issues Borderline personality disorder: Study shows stigma a barrier to those seeking treatment By Tegan Osborne Kylie Travers was just 16 years old when she first tried to kill herself. Afterwards she was treated for depression and ADHD. But it was not until many years later, when she was finally diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD), that she finally began to understand why she felt the way she did. “In 2010, my stepmother was reading a book called Stop Walking on Eggshells (a book about BPD) and she recommended that I read it,…
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Nearly 6% of Americans suffer from a mental illness doctors barely understand
“We only have medications that treat individual symptoms.” Nearly 6% of Americans suffer from a mental illness doctors barely understand MELISSA STANGER SEP 23 2015, 2:45 AM Pamela Tusiani was 20 years old when she suffered what her mother described as a “sudden and life-shattering nervous breakdown.” As she wrote in an article for Newsday, some days she would be bedridden, unable to eat or speak to anyone; other times she would lash out in anger at people she cared about, or cut herself to feel some relief from her emotional pain. “My daughter is losing her grip on reality, and I’ve never been so scared” her mother wrote in…