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When it’s all about your feelings and what you can do

Participate in a Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) group, where one is taught the four effective stress-reducing skills of distress tolerance, mindfulness, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness. You will learn to cope better.

Vital Signs: It is all about me, actually (link)

By CLAIRE HUTCHINSON AND TIMOTHY CAMPBELL

Let’s face it: We all get stressed sometimes, [...]

How 3 Days in The Psych Ward Saved My Life

I had been insecure about the way I looked at 20; now that I was pushing 40, I could only imagine how my slow physical decline would impact my already fragile self-esteem. I was scared—really scared. I had my addiction under control (as under control as I could have it) but my borderline personality disorder, [...]

Anxiety sensitivity and borderline personality disorder

Anxiety sensitivity, or the fear of becoming anxious, has been indicated as a factor in the occurrence of panic attacks for a long time. It is believed that many panic attacks are caused or intensified by the fear of anxiety, a self-perpetuating cycle that can eventually leave the sufferer house-bound in an effort to control [...]

Buprenorphine for BPD?

This is an excellent blog post with a letter included from an ex-addict suffering from BPD. I’ve written about opiod issues and borderline personality disorder before. The thing that struck me about this article was this line: “The opioid made me feel unlike I had ever felt– like I was “normal” in a way, and [...]

Major Depressive Disorder and BPD

A little while ago, I posted an study about the over-lap between Major Depressive Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder. The last sentence of this study was “In the meantime, the clinician treating major depressive disorder would be wise to assess for borderline personality disorder, even as currently defined.” That was because the study found a [...]

Interesting Interview with Dr. Leland Heller about BPD

“Much of it comes from self-destructive behaviors that are used to stop the horrible pain of dysphoria; anxiety, rage, depression and despair. When an individual behaves out-of-control, in a manner that’s inconsistent with their beliefs or normal choices, terrible self-hate develops. Additionally many individuals had low self-esteem and related problems since childhood and are in [...]

Amy Winehouse and BPD

One of my twitter followers posted the original Daily Star article about Amy Winehouse and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Of course, I’d had Amy on my Celebrities with Possible BPD list for many years. If you want to read all of my articles about Amy Winehouse click here. I have no idea why the title [...]

Pain, Borderline Personality Disorder, Emotional Lability and Opiate Abuse

An article from pain.org regarding BPD, emotional lability and Opiate Abuse:

The medical borderline: personality characteristics that promote increased risk of opioid misuse

Geralyn Datz, Melissa Bonnell, Toni Merkey, Todd Sitzman Forrest General Hospital, Hattiesburg, MS, USA, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, USA, Advanced Pain Therapy, PLLC, Hattiesburg, MS, USA

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Opiate Abuse

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Study Illuminates the Pain of Social Rejection

Physical pain and intense feelings of social rejection “hurt” in the same way, a new study shows.

I would imagine that for people with BPD this physical pain would be even more painful…

Study Illuminates the ‘Pain’ of Social Rejection

Rejection and Pain

ScienceDaily (Mar. 28, 2011) — Physical pain and intense feelings of [...]

A Comment on my Blog that needs promoting

A while back I received a comment on the article Four Reasons Bipolar is Accepted and Borderline Personality Disorder is Not that was apparently re-posted on a forum for people with BPD. It turns out that many of the people with BPD identified with this comment (more than my post actually). So, I thought I’d [...]