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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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Study: Borderline Personality Patients up to 6 times more likely to abuse prescription drugs
The abuse of prescription medications: borderline personality patients in psychiatric versus non-psychiatric settings. Sansone RA, Wiederman MW. Source Wright State University and Kettering Medical Center, Ohio, USA. Abstract OBJECTIVE: In this study, the prevalence of prescription substance abuse among those with borderline personality symptomatology was examined in a large cohort of respondents who participated in one of 13 prior research projects. METHOD: The entire cohort (N = 1039) was divided into 3 subsamples: a psychiatric sample (n = 440), a predominantly primary care sample (n = 599), and an internal medicine sample (n = 332; i.e., a well-defined subset of the predominantly primary care sample that consisted of only internal…
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Casey Johnson desperately tried to contact her billionaire Jets owner father
Revealed: Casey Johnson desperately tried to contact her billionaire Jets owner father before her sudden death at 30 – after he cut her off when she came out as a lesbian, adopted a baby and refused to stop partying Casey Johnson, heiress to Johnson & Johnson, died from complications from diabetes in January 2010 when she was just 30 Her mother, Sale Johnson, has revealed Casey’s hard partying lifestyle and troubles stemmed from borderline personality disorder Her father, Woody Johnson, cut her out after a string of public spats – and he never reconnected with her despite her repeated efforts New details have emerged in biography about the dynasty’s scandals…
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From the NY Times: Sharp Rise in Women’s Deaths From Overdose of Painkillers
More women now die of overdoses from pain pills like OxyContin than from cervical cancer or homicide. Sharp Rise in Women’s Deaths From Overdose of Painkillers By SABRINA TAVERNISE Published: July 2, 2013 PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — Prescription pain pill addiction was originally seen as a man’s problem, a national epidemic that began among workers doing backbreaking labor in the coal mines and factories of Appalachia. But a new analysis of federal data has found that deaths in recent years have been rising far faster among women, quintupling since 1999. More women now die of overdoses from pain pills like OxyContin than from cervical cancer or homicide. And though more men…
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Mindy McCready dies in apparent suicide
The former country star apparently took her own life on Sunday at her home in Heber Springs, Ark. Authorities say McCready died of a suspected self-inflicted gunshot to the head and an autopsy is planned. She was 37, and left behind two young sons. Mindy McCready dies in apparent suicide (LINK) HEBER SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) — Perhaps there was one heartbreak too many for Mindy McCready. The former country star apparently took her own life on Sunday at her home in Heber Springs, Ark. Authorities say McCready died of a suspected self-inflicted gunshot to the head and an autopsy is planned. She was 37, and left behind two young sons.…
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What I Inherited – A story of addiction, mental illness and recovery
When everything in your life is going swimmingly but you’re bed-bound and Googling “how to make a hangman’s noose,” not so normal. What I Inherited Want to know if genetics plays a role in both addiction and mental illness? Just take a glance at my family tree. By Amy Dresner 11/04/12 When I was young and full of hope and promise, I didn’t think twice about all the mental illness and addiction throughout my family. I was an only child and I thought, “I will be the exception to the rule.” And I really believed it. But as I got older and the therapists, medications and rehabs started to pile…
