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Help for partners and parents of people with Borderline Personality Disorder – Non-BPDs by Bon Dobbs

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  • Borderline Personality Disorder,  Suicide

    Mother who attempted suicide writes open letter to A&E staff saying “Stop judging me”

    October 23, 2015 / No Comments

    “When I attend your department I can guarantee it’s as a last resort. I’ll have spent up to an hour tending to my cuts, trying to dress them and have been mentally running through the pros and cons of presenting at A&E to seek help. (There are always more cons) I have never took that decision to attend lightly.” Mother who attempted suicide writes open letter to A&E staff saying “Stop judging me” James Connell A MUM from Worcester who has attempted suicide several times has written an open letter to the city’s A&E department asking staff to show more compassion for people like her. Mother-of-three Sasha Bailey-Dean who lives…

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  • Borderline Personality Disorder,  Suicide

    Borderline personality disorder: Study shows stigma a barrier to those seeking treatment

    October 16, 2015 / 1 Comment

    She struggled to regulate her emotions and often found herself getting very upset and angry over small issues Borderline personality disorder: Study shows stigma a barrier to those seeking treatment By Tegan Osborne Kylie Travers was just 16 years old when she first tried to kill herself. Afterwards she was treated for depression and ADHD. But it was not until many years later, when she was finally diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD), that she finally began to understand why she felt the way she did. “In 2010, my stepmother was reading a book called Stop Walking on Eggshells (a book about BPD) and she recommended that I read it,…

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  • Borderline Personality Disorder,  Celebrities,  Suicide

    ‘I am broken inside’: Revisiting lessons from Jiah Khan’s death and suicide note

    September 18, 2015 / 1 Comment

    “All I want now is to go to sleep and never wake up again. I am nothing.” ‘I am broken inside’: Revisiting lessons from Jiah Khan’s death and suicide note Rachel Hercman Aug 25, 2015 at 12:09 pm Jiah Khan’s suicide is now in news again because of Sooraj’s impending movie release. Whether it is a genuine attempt to clear the air or just a PR act, we do not know. However, when we remember the young, beautiful, famous actress deciding she had no other solution than to take her own life, it is a testament to the amount of emotional pain she must have been experiencing. Her suicide note…

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  • Suicide

    What many people get wrong about suicide

    September 18, 2015 / No Comments

    Most suicides are impulsive, but a lot of long-term factors can contribute to the trigger event. What many people get wrong about suicide Updated by German Lopez on September 17, 2015, 1:23 p.m. ET Why do people kill themselves? It’s a question at the heart of suicide prevention: If we know the circumstances surrounding the act, we can better know how to stop it. One myth, for example, is that suicide isn’t impulsive, and people will simply resort to other methods if some lethal means — like guns — aren’t available to them. But Jill Harkavy-Friedman, vice president of research for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, told me years…

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  • Pain,  Suicide

    The Death Treatment

    September 2, 2015 / No Comments

    He recently approved the euthanasia of a twenty-five-year-old woman with borderline personality disorder who did not “suffer from depression in the psychiatric sense of the word,” he said. “It was more existential; it was impossible for her to have a goal in this life.” The Death Treatment When should people with a non-terminal illness be helped to die? Letter from Belgium JUNE 22, 2015 ISSUE In her diary, Godelieva De Troyer classified her moods by color. She felt “dark gray” when she made a mistake while sewing or cooking. When her boyfriend talked too much, she moved between “very black” and “black!” She was afflicted with the worst kind of…

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  • Borderline Personality Disorder,  Suicide

    Multi-national research identifies behaviors associated with suicide

    September 1, 2015 / No Comments

    Borderline personality disorder and substance abuse disorder were comorbid diagnoses most commonly associated with attempted suicide. Multi-national research identifies behaviors associated with suicide Research presented at the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology Congress indicate behavior patterns associated with suicide, which may aid clinicians in identifying patients who will eventually attempt suicide. Dina Popovic, PhD, of the University of Barcelona in Barcelona, and colleagues conducted standard mental health interviews among 2,811 patients with depression — 628 of whom had attempted suicide — to identify history of suicide, family history, current and previous treatment, clinical presentation and Global Assessment of Functioning scale scores. Analysis indicated depressive mixed states often preceded attempted suicide, as…

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