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Reorienting a Depressed Patient to Address Underlying BPD
Undesirable living situations and/or failures to achieve what you expect of yourself exacerbate and prolong depression. Reorienting a Depressed Patient to Address Underlying BPD John Gunderson, M.D. October 08, 2013 DOI: 10.1176/appi.pn.2013.11a23 A 22-year-old African-American male named Morris was referred to me by Dr. Henri. Morris was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) after a nonlethal overdose had led to an ER visit. This event occurred after several years in which his “treatment-resistant” depression had persisted despite many medication trials. Neatly dressed in black jeans and shirt, he seemed wary and perhaps, I thought, a bit frightened when he arrived. While we were in the waiting room, his worried overweight…
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The mental illness monsters: Artist visualizes what illnesses would look like if they were mythical creatures
Toby Allen says the monsters are not meant to make light of the conditions. He hopes that by giving them a physical form, he will make them seem more beatable – also hopes they will reduce stigma around mental illness. The mental illness monsters: Artist visualizes what illnesses would look like if they were mythical creatures By EMMA INNES PUBLISHED: 11:44 EST, 8 October 2013 Toby Allen, a Cornish artist, has imagined what eight common mental illnesses would look like if they were monsters. He drew what he believed anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, social anxiety, avoidant personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, paranoia and dissociative identity disorder would look like as monsters.…
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Bipolar disorder ‘distinct’ from borderline personality disorder
The MDD-BPD patients also had more personality disorders than the bipolar patients (56.7 vs 38.5%) and had more severe depressive symptoms, including higher scores for anger, anxiety, paranoid ideation, and somatization. MDD-BPD patients had poorer social functioning than patients with bipolar II depression, and had made more suicide attempts. Bipolar disorder ‘distinct’ from borderline personality disorder (link) By Eleanor McDermid, Senior medwireNews Reporter 08 October 2013 J Clin Psychiatry 2013; 74: 880–886 medwireNews: Researchers say that there are clear clinical differences between depressed patients with bipolar II disorder and those with borderline personality disorder, which supports the two being treated as distinct conditions. The 62 bipolar II disorder patients in…
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How to Tell the Difference Between Borderline Personality Disorder and Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder have some symptoms in common, but are two very different diseases. It’s important to understand the difference between borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder, in order to help yourself or someone you love get the right treatment. Each of these two mental disorders is often misdiagnosed as the other, because the difference between borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder, in terms of symptoms, can be so subtle. Bipolar disorder causes its victims to cycle through mania, a mental state characterized by feelings of invulnerability, euphoria, and impulsivity, often followed by periods of severe depression marked by anxiety, aggression, irritability, suicide attempts or self-harming episodes.…
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Will the new DSM-5 change the way we deal with the Americans with Disability Act?
DSM-5 does not treat personality disorders separately from other mental disorders as did its predecessors. Will the DSM-5 Lead to Crazy Employment Law? From the Experts By James J. McDonald Jr. The American Psychiatric Association released a new edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, known as “DSM-5,” on May 18. Although the manual is primarily used by psychiatrists and other mental health professionals in diagnosing patients, its influence extends to the courts and the development of employment law as well. DSM-5 will surely affect employment law profoundly, but it may well do so in some disparate and unpredictable ways. DSM-5 is likely to expand the number of…
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Research effort reveals differences in brain activity for bipolar and borderline
The scans revealed that those with BP were able to function quite normally under normal conditions, but when taxed, their brains were found to have to work harder than normal to keep up. Many people have started using brain supplements from https://neurohacks.co/best-nootropic-brain-supplements/ to help them focus more. Those with BPD on the other hand, showed heightened activity in the amygdala, a part of the brain normally associated with fear response. Research effort reveals differences in brain activity for two types of mental illness April 4, 2013 by Bob Yirka (Medical Xpress)—Researchers in Australia have uncovered what they describe as differences in brain behavior for people diagnosed with either bipolar disorder…