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Borderline Personality Disorder, Celebrities, DBT, Emotions, Odds and Ends, Other Disorders, Self-Injury
Dr. Drew tells us some celebrities have mental illnesses
Duh! Anyway, here is an article from Wired about celebrities and mental illness: Celebrities’ bad behavior is rooted in mental illness, according to “Dr. Drew” Pinsky, who is best known as the host of Celebrity Rehab and Loveline — a nationally syndicated radio show that invites listeners to call in with questions about sex and drugs. In his latest book, The Mirror Effect (on bookstore shelves Tuesday), he spells out a theory that stars are predisposed to narcissistic personality disorder long before they become famous. Their dysfunctional behavior is rewarded by Hollywood and portrayed as normal by the press. “As reporting on celebrity behavior becomes even more ruthless and mean-spirited,…
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A brief note about a new book
Recently, Randi Kreger published her new book “The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder.” I read it and have to give thanks to Randi for providing it to me gratis. Thanks Randi! At the same time, I have a problem with this book. While it is MUCH better than “Stop Walking on Eggshells” (SWOE), her previous book about NON-BPs, I agree with her prescription about 40%. Her sections on “Communicating to be heard” and “Reinforcing right behavior” are agreeable, the rest is NOT agreeable to me. I will soon offer a true book review of this new book; however, I believe (humbly) that my book WHINE is a MUCH…
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One-night stand turns ugly
While this article is not specifically about BPD, there is some mutilation in it (not self, but of a boyfriend), so it may be triggering to some. Here is long article on it and here is a link to a shorter article with pictures (be warned!). ‘Blackburn woman tattooed lover with Stanley knife’ 8:50am Saturday 31st January 2009 A WOMAN used a Stanley knife to carve her name on the shoulder of her lover while he was asleep, a court heard. Dominique Fisher, 22, of Blackburn, has gone on trial accused of unlawfully wounding Wayne Robinson, with whom she had a drink-and-drug fueled four-day fling after meeting in a nightclub.…
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Decision making on Colbert?
Video of Jonathan Lehrer discussing his new book How We Decide on Colbert Report.
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What’s wrong with Jim Carroll?
Alrighty then… this has little to do with my subject (BPD), but I stumbled across a picture on wikipedia yesterday of Jim Carroll. I was writing a post on the ATSTP List about tough love. I will follow up here more on the tough love idea shortly, but I wanted to show how boundaries can be used in tough love, and about how those boundaries are for YOU, not for your loved one. In other words you have to enforce those boundaries for yourself. Boundaries are choices about what YOU will and will not do for/with/about your life and your loved ones. The best example of tough love that I…
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Results from my latest poll
Last year, I launched a poll asking my readers how they are related to a person with BPD. The choices were: Self Spouse Non-Spouse Partner Child Parent Sibling or Other Relation Friend Ex-Partner or Ex-Spouse I got 141 votes from 102 voters (you could choose more than one relationship if you had more than one). I have now closed that poll and wanted to present the results. I have two graphs that represent the results of that poll. One is a straight results graph: Which shows that the spouse category is the largest at about 22%. However, in the next graph I combined spouse, non-spouse partner and ex-partner (or spouse)…