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  • Borderline Personality Disorder,  Impulsiveness

    Cats Again Get a Bad Rap in Toxoplasmosis Coverage

    April 22, 2016 / 1 Comment

    A study linking the disease to a psychiatric disorder marked by aggression didn’t include cats — but you’d never know it from the headlines. Cats Again Get a Bad Rap in Toxoplasmosis Coverage s.e. smith | Apr 20th 2016 Toxoplasmosis is back. A new study led by researchers from the University of Chicago links the disease with Intermittent Explosive Disorder, in which patients experience outbursts of extreme anger. Headlines such as “Could germ from cat poop trigger rage disorder in people?” and “Cats Might Be the Reason Some People Are So Terrible” are circulating, but this is not in fact a study about cats. It’s a study about toxoplasmosis and…

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  • Borderline Personality Disorder,  Impulsiveness,  Substance Abuse,  Suicide

    How Borderline Personality Disorder Put an End to My Party Days (#BPD)

    August 17, 2015 / No Comments

    The negative emotions I have are immobilizing. They crash over me like huge waves, knocking the wind out of me and forcing me underwater. How Borderline Personality Disorder Put an End to My Party Days August 10, 2015 by Harriet Williamson In the summer of 2010, just before I turned 19 and in my first year of university, I attempted suicide with a month’s supply of my antidepressants and ended up in intensive care, breathing on a machine. By my second year, my good-time friends had had enough of me. I was no longer invited out, and became very isolated and increasingly unhappy. I got into an abusive relationship and…

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  • Borderline Personality Disorder,  Impulsiveness,  Suicide

    Gun Control and BPD

    April 4, 2014 / No Comments

    “Having the scarlet letter saying you had a mental health issue… that prevents you from purchasing a weapon, I’m not sure that’s a wise policy statement,” said Mark Pearlmutter, an emergency physician in Boston and an expert on mental health issues. “However, anyone who has history of violence, incarceration, borderline personality disorder, or unpredictability, I would personally support those patients not having access to weapons.” Bon: I am NOT getting political here. I wanted to point out that I would never own a gun while living with a person with Borderline Personality Disorder. The impulsiveness + suicidal ideation + access to a gun = a very dangerous situation. D.C. shift:…

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  • Borderline Personality Disorder,  Emotions,  Impulsiveness,  Manipulation,  Other Disorders

    Happy Victimization: Emotion Dysregulation in The Context of Instrumental, Proactive Aggression

    October 22, 2013 / 2 Comments

    How the role of attachment, amygdala response and the mirror neuron system play out in aggression types in BPD and Psychopathy Here is a snip from a very interesting blog post by William Lu, who was a graduate student in psychology when he wrote it in 2010: I recently read a fascinating book chapter written by William Arsenio titled Happy Victimization: Emotion Dysregulation in The Context of Instrumental, Proactive Aggression. Early in the chapter, the author discussed how according to a study, 4-year-old children tended to predict that a bully would feel happy after pushing around some poor chump on the playground, aka happy victimization (Arsenio & Kramer, 1992). However, at age…

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  • Borderline Personality Disorder,  Impulsiveness

    Closing the Poll on Binge Spending and Money Problems

    August 8, 2011 / No Comments

    Results not positive or effective for borderlines and money. I was astounded at the results of my latest non-scientific poll about borderlines and money issues. Here are the general results from the money and BPD poll: As you can see 85% of the nons and borderlines reported spending issues, even more than substance abuse, self-injury and suicide attempts. If we remove the “I don’t know” responses it jumps to more than 88%. No related posts.

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  • Emotions,  Impulsiveness,  Substance Abuse

    What Diane Schuler’s story can tell us about emotional honesty and acceptance

    June 20, 2011 / No Comments

    You may or may not remember this story from 2009. Diane Schuler, a mother and aunt with her children and her sister’s children in a min-van, goes the wrong way on the Taconic Parkway in Westchester county and plows into an SUV head-on killing three in the SUV and 4 children and herself in the mini-van. Toxicology reports showed she had a blood alcohol level of .19 over twice the legal limit of .08. She also reportedly smoked marijuana and had several ounces of undigested alcohol in her stomach. Here’s an article that analyses the NY Magazine article about her husband Daniel Schuler. This analysis from Jezebel.com, points out the problems,…

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