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Suicide in America: An awful hole
Women make nearly four times as many suicide attempts as men, but men succeed four times as often. Men favour bloodier methods: most use a gun, whereas less than a third of women do. Women may be better at asking for help; overall, they are two and a half times more likely than men to take anti-depressants. Suicide in America: An awful hole Why more Americans are killing themselves Jan 31st 2015 BEING depressed is like having a terrible headache, says one Atlanta businessman. Except that a few days of rest do not stop the pain: “You’re just expected to keep going.” Trying to “man up”, he sought little help for…
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Managing Suicidality in Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder
In BPD, the most typical suicidal behavior is an overdose of pills, occurring in an interpersonal context. These overdoses usually carry a message—sometimes for a lover and sometimes for a therapist. Patients with BPD also tend to cut their wrists repetitively, and/or carry out other actions to hurt themselves. Managing Suicidality in Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder July 01, 2006 By Joel Paris, MD Suicidality is a defining feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD). It is also the feature that creates the most anxiety among those who treat patients with this disorder. It is rare to find patients with BPD who have never shown any suicidal behavior. As described in…
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How I escaped suicidal depression
I had two alternatives. One was to kill myself, to end my struggle. The other was to find something rigorous and unorthodox to conquer this depression. How I escaped suicidal depression ‘I had two alternatives. One was to kill myself.’ By Leslie Contreras Schwartz, special to the Houston Chronicle November 17, 2014 “You will mostly likely have several suicide attempts in the future,” the psychiatrist said, sitting across from me in carefully crossed ankles you may need to use an ankle brace amazon. “And you will have severe clinical depression the rest of your life.” With a closed-lip smile, she closed my enormous patient file on her lap. “You must…
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I was suicidal. I needed help.
A year after her initial diagnosis, Mattocks was finally given dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT) which was “the first treatment that genuinely helped.” An insight into youth mental health services: ‘I was suicidal. I needed help’ The health select committee has found ‘serious and deeply engrained problems’ in mental health services for young people At age 14, Nikki Mattocks began to hear voices in her head that drove her to self-harm. Plagued with suicidal thoughts, she sought help from her school and GP, but she was not immediately referred to a mental health professional. The next six months, before she was diagnosed, was a blur of suicide attempts and trips to…
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Don’t discount suicide attempts in borderline patients
No matter how many times borderline personality disorder patients seem to “cry wolf”, the threat of suicide is real and needs to be taken seriously. Don’t discount suicide attempts in borderline patients By: M. ALEXANDER OTTO, Clinical Psychiatry News APR. 22, 2014 AT THE ANNUAL AAS CONFERENCE VITALS Major finding: Following suicide attempts, patients with borderline personality features scored a mean of 14.51 points and nonborderline patients a mean of 12.96 on the Beck Suicide Intent Scale. Borderline patients scored a mean of 2.25 points and nonborderline patients a mean of 2.39 on the Medical Lethality Rating Scale. The differences were not significant. Data Source: Surveys of 90 patients admitted…
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My girl has not eaten for a year but NHS refuses to help
A mother whose anorexic daughter has refused food for a year has criticised the NHS for failing to provide the life-saving treatment she needs. Emma Duffy: ‘My girl has not eaten for a year but NHS refuses to help’ A mother whose anorexic daughter has refused food for a year has criticised the NHS for failing to provide the life-saving treatment she needs. Beverley Duffy’s daughter, Emma, who also suffers from borderline personality disorder, relies on liquid nutrition through a tube. But the 24-year-old has been refused a bed at The Retreat, in York – one of the nation’s only units to treat eating disorders and BPD together – on…