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Polls and Ineffective Borderline Behavior
I’ve had conversations with several BPD “experts” about borderline behavior. There seems to be an assumption that many people with BPD are “silent” or “high-functioning” and do not engage in dangerous and/or ineffective behavior often attributed to the “typical” borderline. In my group recently, a non-BPD was questioning his own “sanity” (I put it in quotes because I don’t believe that people with BPD are insane) and speculating that he was the one with BPD. One of our longer-time posters replied: If you’re not throwing full-blown temper tantrums, freaking out because EVERYONE is out to get you, threatening to hurt or kill yourself, running away from those who love you…
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Changing of the Poll: Non-BPD Books
Today, I have decided to rotate the poll. The last question I asked is about books that non-BPD people have read. Not surprisingly, the largest slice of the responders said “Stop Walking on Eggshells” as the book that they read (among others). Here is the data, normalized across the “choose all that apply” spectrum. If you’d like to see it by responders, see the “polls” link or poll archive. OK, here’s a better representation of the percentage of the responders, rather than the % by total answers: I also have started a new poll about self-injury. I am quite interested in the stats on self-injury because I have been told…
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Updated Stats from Search Engine Keywords
Well, I haven’t updated my stats in a while so I thought it might be interesting to do so. The last 30 days I had the following stats: Celebrities with a PD rose to 53% of the traffic – it’s amazing what people are interested in. BPD General rose to 26% of my traffic. This is due in part to my running a Google AdWords campaign on the term “BPD” to try and get my book, When Hope is Not Enough: a how-to guide for living with and loving someone with Borderline Personality Disorder, into the hands of more people. Coping was about the same as in the past. I…
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Fun with Keywords Again
Well, I’ve looked over recent keywords that find my blog and found these to be interesting (with my comment in parenthesis): borderline tough love (it doesn’t work see this post) bpd not wrong (I wonder a BP saying they’re not wrong or a non-bp complaining about it?) bpd impacts on loved ones (big ones! That’s the whole point of the site huh?) how to stop ruminating (It isn’t easy. Mindfulness helps.) dumped out of the blue bpd (yeah, it happens) how to stop a demonic possession (I’m amazed at the number of demonic possession believers out there) here is the last two digits of my social (ok, where is the…
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Biology, Blame, Borderline Personality Disorder, Emotions, Odds and Ends, Resources, Stats, Validation
Follow the Yellow Click Road
Apparently, someone over at Welcome to Oz (WTO) Internet list posted a message asking about me and what I am all about concerning BPD and Non-BPs. This lead to a huge spike in traffic with my average number of accesses basically doubling over the weekend. I’m still a member of WTO, so I decided to login and take a look at what people are saying about me over there. I haven’t posted in years and haven’t logged in in months. Obviously, there are many, many new people who have no idea who I am or what I’m about. There are a few members still hanging around who do remember me.…
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More Fun with ATSTP Stats
Yesterday, I posted a message about my last 30 days search engine terms. Today, I am posting about page views. In the last 30 days I have had about 1,200 individual page views (not including the front page which gets the most views, it had about 3,000 views this month). I have categorized the page views in the graph to the right. One interesting thing to note is that while 60% of the search terms involve celebrities with PDs (BPD, APD, NPD, others), only 43% of my page views are related to celebs. Only 2% of the search terms are related to BPD = evil (or demonic), 11% of my…