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People With Borderline Personality Disorder May Misinterpret Facial Emotions
In studies, BPD patients sometimes saw anger in a ‘neutral’ face and reacted to that threat. BON: this is kind of a “duh” idea. It’s been well-noted/studied for some time. It is noted in When Hope is Not Enough as well as what, as a loved one, you can do about it. Anyway…. People With Borderline Personality Disorder May Misinterpret Facial Emotions In studies, patients sometimes saw anger in a ‘neutral’ face and reacted to that threat. THURSDAY, May 23 (HealthDay News) — Symptoms of borderline personality disorder often mimic traits of other psychiatric disorders, complicating diagnosis and treatment. But researchers in Canada say they have identified a characteristic that…
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Levels of validation
Karyn Hall at the Emotionally Sensitive Person blog has another great post on the levels of emotional validation… Self-Validation: What Do You Do? By KARYN HALL, PHD Validation is like relationship glue. Validating someone brings you closer. Validating yourself is like glue for fragmented parts of your identity. Validating yourself will help you accept and better understand yourself, which leads to a stronger identity and better skills at managing intense emotions. Being out of control of your emotions is a painful experience and damaging to relationships. Knowing how to self-validate is important to learning to manage your emotions effectively. Self-validation means you can accept your internal experience as understandable and…
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Story about resentments from Zen
I really like the book Zen Shorts, which is a children’s book about Zen and Zen stories. There are 3 stories in the book and this is my favorite, which is about resentments and hanging on to negative feelings: Two traveling monks reached a town where there was a young woman waiting to step out of her sedan chair. The rains had made deep puddles and she couldn’t step across without spoiling her silken robes. She stood there, looking very cross and impatient. She was scolding her attendants. They had nowhere to place the packages they held for her, so they couldn’t help her across the puddle. The younger monk…
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Emotional Overeating
For many, overeating is a state of mind. Find out why overeating is often emotional, how to cope and how to stop yourself. I get so emotional, baby … and I think of food By Jeff Schnaufer CTW Features You’ve had a bad day at work. Or maybe someone cut you off in traffic. Or perhaps you found a handful of bills in the mailbox.Whatever the case, you walk through the front door and head straight for the freezer and devour a carton of frozen goodies to relieve that emotional angst gnawing at you. Sound familiar? No matter age, weight or gender, emotional overeating is an equal opportunity offender affecting millions…
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Borderline personality disorder patients may use less effective defense mechanisms
People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often have trouble dealing with emotions. Defending Against Unpleasant Feelings Borderline personality disorder patients may use less effective defense mechanisms (dailyRx News) People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often have trouble dealing with emotions. The way people with BPD deal with unpleasant emotions may affect their recovery. A recent study looked at how people with BPD defended against unwanted feelings. Then, they compared BPD patients to people with other personality disorders. People with BPD more often used less helpful defenses. These defenses were linked to longer time to recovery. People with BPD who used humor had shorter recovery times. The authors suggested that therapy…
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New insights into the borderline personality brain
The hallmark symptom that people describe is emotion dysregulation — you’re happy one moment, and the next moment you’re feeling angry or sad or depressed. People with BPD can cycle through emotions, usually negative ones, quite rapidly. New insights into the ‘borderline personality’ brain (link) New work by University of Toronto Scarborough researchers gives the best description yet of the neural circuits that underlie a severe mental illness called Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), and could lead to better treatments and diagnosis. The work shows that brain regions that process negative emotions (for example, anger and sadness) are overactive in people with BPD, while brain regions that would normally help damp…