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Interesting Study on Self-Injury and Borderline Personality Disorder
Among the BPD factors, emotion dysregulation and disturbed relatedness were both associated with non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) history, but only disturbed relatedness was associated with NSSI frequency. The relationship between non-suicidal self-injury and borderline personality disorder symptoms in a college sample Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a major concern in both clinical and non-clinical populations. It has been approximated that 65-80% of individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) engage in some form of NSSI.Despite such high co-morbidity, much still remains unknown about the relationship between NSSI and BPD symptomatology. The goal of the current study was to identify individual BPD symptoms and higher order BPD factors that increase one’s vulnerability of NSSI engagement…
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Learning that there is a better way than self-harm
A new programme is being rolled out across the country to teach people who are severely suicidal and who repeatedly self-harm that there is a less destructive way to manage their emotional pain. Those who repeatedly self- harm are often diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD), which is characterised by difficulties in managing emotions, in suicidality and continual self-harm. Dr Marsha Linehan, a psychologist at the University of Washington, has led a crusade to find an effective treatment approach for BPD and has been credited internationally with developing the most effective treatment to date – dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT). Linehan spent a week in Ireland at the start of the year…
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An Opioid Deficit in Borderline Personality Disorder: Self-Cutting, Substance Abuse, and Social Dysfunction
Excerpt: How might abnormal opioid activity help to explain the symptoms and etiology of borderline personality disorder? For decades, researchers have theorized that at least one behavior common in borderline personality disorder—self-cutting—relates to abnormalities in opioid activity. It has long been noted that patients with borderline personality disorder report that they engage in self-cutting not as a suicidal act but, rather, as a means to relieve psychic pain. Many patients report that they do not feel physical pain at the moment when they cut themselves; instead, cutting engenders feelings of relief or well-being. One view of cutting in borderline personality disorder is that it represents a method of endogenous opioid…
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As Olympic golden girl Victoria Pendleton admits self-harming… the secret pressures driving so many teenage girls to cut
Recent research suggests that between one in 12 and one in 15 British teenagers is known to self-harm, while the number of children being admitted to hospital in England with self-inflicted injuries has increased by 68 per cent in the past decade. As Olympic golden girl Victoria Pendleton admits self-harming… the secret pressures driving so many teenage girls to cut By Antonia Hoyle PUBLISHED: 16:58 EST, 5 September 2012 | UPDATED: 12:26 EST, 6 September 2012 Anguish: ‘I hated my body and wanted to hurt it,’ says Megan Amy Feltham took a deep breath and ran her penknife across her arm. As the blade pierced her skin and blood seeped…
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Marsha Linehan receives Psychiatry Award
Dr. Marsha M. Linehan, an expert in the treatment of suicidal behaviors, personality disorders – including eating disorders – and other complex mental disorders, has been selected as the recipient of the 2012 Joan and Stanford Alexander Award in Psychiatry. Psychiatry award recipient to present lecture on dialectical behavior therapy (link) HOUSTON — (April 17, 2012) — Dr. Marsha M. Linehan, an expert in the treatment of suicidal behaviors, personality disorders – including eating disorders – and other complex mental disorders, has been selected as the recipient of the 2012 Joan and Stanford Alexander Award in Psychiatry. The award was established in honor of Dr. Stuart Yudofsky, professor and chair…
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Self-harming put world on pause for me, says teen
A mother and her teenage son gave a rare insight into the trauma of self-harm yesterday. Self-harming put world on pause for me, says teen (link) By Evelyn Ring Saturday, March 03, 2012 A mother and her teenage son gave a rare insight into the trauma of self-harm yesterday. Dara and Eoghan — who only wanted to be identified by their first names — said it was talking about the problem rather than medication that had worked best for them. Eoghan told a major conference on self-injury in Trinity College Dublin, that he first became depressed when he was 15 years old because he was unhappy at school. He started…
