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A therapy that helps to rebuild broken lives- DBT
ANNE* ALWAYS felt she was different from everybody else and, having had a difficult early childhood, by the time she was a teenager she did not think she belonged in this world. A therapy that helps to rebuild broken lives SHEILA WAYMAN Tue, Dec 27, 2011 ANNE* ALWAYS felt she was different from everybody else and, having had a difficult early childhood, by the time she was a teenager she did not think she belonged in this world. “I believed I was invisible – I didn’t think people saw me,” she says. “I was insecure and very mixed up about my own identity; I did not know who I was,…
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New guidance for management of self-harm issued
The healthcare guidance body NICE has today published a new clinical guideline on the longer-term care of adults, children and young people who self-harm. New guidance for management of self-harm issued 23 Nov 2011 The healthcare guidance body NICE has today published a new clinical guideline on the longer-term care of adults, children and young people who self-harm. The guideline development group was chaired by Professor Navneet Kapur in The University of Manchester’s Centre for Suicide Prevention. This new guideline follows on from the NICE guideline on the short-term physical and psychological management and secondary prevention of self-harm in primary and secondary care (NICE clinical guideline 16). The new recommendations…
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I’m going to jump – Suicide Prevention and influencing factors
Many suicide attempts are preceded by a history of self-harm, in which there is deliberate injury that a person inflicts on his or her body. This does not mean that the person who self-harms wants to commit suicide, but is an effort by the person to cope with intense emotions. I’m gonna jump (link) THE DOCTOR SAYS By Dr MILTON LUM The are several factors that increase the risk of a person commiting sucide. EVERYONE’S life has its ups and downs, with feelings and emotions accompanying many of these situations. Most people adapt and cope with the downs. However, there are some who are so overcome with these emotions that…
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Ask Bon: Why does my loved one with BPD do such dangerous things? (like cutting, drugs, etc.)
People with BPD are in a great deal of emotional pain. Since emotions are immediate and primal, emotional pain is also immediate and primal. As I have said, emotions represent a land-bridge between the body and the mind. Emotional pain manifests itself in both mental and physical ways. If you have ever been depressed or “fraught with grief” over the loss of something or someone important to you, you will know what I am saying in this regard. Depression and grief can be a trying experience for anyone. You feel pain in every area of your body and mind. Sometimes you will just want to retreat to your bedroom and…
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Dr. Marsha Linehan comes out about her own struggles with mental illness
This is a ground-breaking article and admission by Dr. Marsha Linehan, the developer of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), about her own struggles with mental illness and self-injury. A must read! June 23, 2011 Expert on Mental Illness Reveals Her Own Fight By BENEDICT CAREY HARTFORD — Are you one of us? The patient wanted to know, and her therapist — Marsha M. Linehan of the University of Washington, creator of a treatment used worldwide for severely suicidal people — had a ready answer. It was the one she always used to cut the question short, whether a patient asked it hopefully, accusingly or knowingly, having glimpsed the macramé of faded…
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BPD: What’s the Cost?
In a recent article/review of Borderline Personality Disorder treatment options and management methodologies, the author quotes the Dr. John Gunderson in the New England Journal of Medicine May 26 issue: “…BPD is present in about 6% of primary care patients and persons in community-based samples and in 15 to 20% of patients in psychiatric hospitals and outpatient clinics,” writes John G. Gunderson, MD, from the Psychosocial and Personality Research Program, McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. “Patients with BPD usually enter treatment facilities after suicide attempts or after episodes of deliberate self-injury. Such episodes result in an average hospital stay of 6.3 days per year and nearly 1 emergency room visit…