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How it Feels to Live With Borderline Personality Disorder
People often discuss BPD by describing an “emptiness.” For me it’s more an oscillation between the impossibly empty and the impossibly full. How it Feels to Live With Borderline Personality Disorder By Patrick Marlborough It’s Mental Health Week across Australia. Each state starts and ends the special week at different times, but today—Monday—there’s a lot of overlap. So I want to explain why this week should feel like an important call-to-arms, and tell you what it’s like to live with a common—and little understood—mental illnesses: borderline personality disorder, or BPD. Between one and two percent of Australians suffer from BPD. Women are up to three times more likely to have…
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Refusing to be defined by borderline personality disorder
The condition goes hand in hand with depression and anxiety. East Maitland’s Victoria Campbell refuses to be defined by borderline personality disorder by Sage Swinton For Victoria Campbell, the past two years have been an emotional rollercoaster. The East Maitland woman has faced a daily battle against borderline personality disorder (BPD) since her diagnosis in 2014. She has struggled to manage her emotions, suffered deep depression and displayed extreme reactions that she could not control. “You don’t know whether you’re overreacting,” she said. “You worry about every contact with every person. You think you’re an idiot, you’re a fool.” The condition goes hand in hand with depression and anxiety. “The…
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A Spectrum Approach to Mood Disorders
The author deftly explores the overlapping symptoms of mixed bipolar symptoms, anxiety disorders, borderline personality disorders, ADHD, and major depression. A Spectrum Approach to Mood Disorders September 06, 2016 | Film And Book Reviews, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Major Depressive Disorder, Mood Disorders By Tammas Kelly, MD A Spectrum Approach to Mood Disorders: Not Fully Bipolar but Not Unipolar—Practical Management by James Phelps, MD; New York: WW Norton and Company, 2016 255 pages • $32.00 (hardcover) In A Spectrum Approach to Mood Disorders, Dr Jim Phelps bravely enters territory that academia has largely neglected—the nebulous region between full bipolar disorder and major depression. This is where so many of our patients…
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CBT most effective treatment for repeat self-harm
CBT seems to be effective in patients after self-harm. Dialectical behavior therapy did not reduce the proportion of patients repeating self-harm but did reduce the frequency of self-harm. CBT most effective treatment for repeat self-harm Hawton K, et al. Lancet Psychiatry. 2016;doi:10.1016/S2215-0366(16)30070-0. Recent findings showed cognitive behavioral therapy after self-harm was effective while dialectical behavior therapy did not reduce repeat self-harm but reduced frequency of self-harm. “Self-harm (intentional acts of non-fatal self-poisoning or self-injury) is common, particularly in young adults aged 15 to 35 years, often repeated, and strongly associated with suicide. Effective aftercare of individuals who self-harm is therefore important,” Keith Hawton, FMedSci, of the University of Oxford, and…
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Borderline personality disorder carries unfair stigma
A diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, like a diagnosis of many other mental illnesses, carries with it an unfair stigma that engenders unwarranted apprehension on the part of the general public. Borderline personality disorder carries unfair stigma May 26, 2016 By John Hartsock Dr. Marsha M. Linehan, Ph.D., a professor of psychology and adjunct professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Washington, has pioneered a therapeutic approach known as dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) that has been used with great efficacy in the treatment of many people with borderline personality disorder. Dialectical behavioral therapy focuses on the concept of mindfulness, or being attentive to the current situation, rather…
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This Is What Borderline Personality Disorder Looks Like
Other than overwhelming emotions, borderline personality disorder is characterized by impulsive and volatile behavior This Is What Borderline Personality Disorder Looks Like May 25, 2016 ‐ By Tracey Lloyd I’ve always been a crier. As a child, my cousins used to visit every week and I cried every time they had to go home. If someone teased me at school, I cried. If I saw a movie that had a sad element, I cried. These were not just tearful moments, they were all-out, slobbering, can’t catch your breath sobs that I couldn’t seem to control. I guess I’m what you might call “sensitive,” and it always feels like my heart…