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Borderline Personality Disorder: Facts vs. Myths
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is one of the most common and effective treatment approaches for BPD. Borderline Personality Disorder: Facts vs. Myths By Paula Durlofsky, PhD Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a serious psychiatric condition marked by a pattern of unstable and stormy relationships, an unformed sense of identity, chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom, unstable moods, and poor impulsive control in areas such as spending, eating, sex, and substance use. Fear surrounding real or imagined abandonment from loved ones is a profound concern for people with BPD and often is what underlies their destructive behaviors. Some people with BPD will go to dangerous lengths to avoid this fear, for example,…
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Self-Injury: Raising the Profile of a Dangerous Behavior
“By applying one type of pain,” he says, “they get rid of a different type of pain,” Self-Injury: Raising the Profile of a Dangerous Behavior A Rutgers researcher appeals to the medical community for better treatment tools and insurance coverage By Rob Forman Self-injury so often occurs in private, an important reason why solid statistics are hard to come by. But researchers estimate between 10 and 40 percent of adolescents, and up to 10 percent of adults, harm themselves physically – usually by cutting or burning their skin. Yet, the condition – known as nonsuicidal self-injury – is not officially recognized by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) as a mental…
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Court unable to intervene in treatment of vulnerable woman
The €400,000 annual costs of her care in St Andrew’s hospital in Northampton, England, was enough to build a unit for her here, the judge previously observed. Court unable to intervene in treatment of vulnerable woman Mary Carolan A lengthy legal action over the treatment of a vulnerable young Irish woman, who was returned here last summer after being involuntarily detained for more than 20 months in a specialised psychiatric unit in England, has concluded without a satisfactory outcome. Mr Justice Seamus Noonan said, although reports showed the woman had refused to engage in recommended therapies and was not making progress, his hands were tied given his previous High Court…
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Should I Smile Back Be Categorized as an “Addiction Movie”?
‘She suffers from this,’ you have every expert saying, ‘No, she’s not bipolar, she really has borderline personality disorder …’” Should I Smile Back Be Categorized as an “Addiction Movie”? By Aisha Harris In I Smile Back, which opened this past weekend, Sarah Silverman plays very much against type: She stars as Laney, a wife and mother whose struggle to manage her mental illness threatens to upend her family and relationships. The film has been referred to casually as an “addiction movie” by many critics, as over the course of the film, Laney indulges in drugs, infidelity, and reckless behavior that put her and her loved ones at risk. But…