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Therapy Isn’t Easy, And Sometimes You Have To Get Worse Before You Get Better
But there is hope – and while there is hope, anything is possible Therapy Isn’t Easy, And Sometimes You Have To Get Worse Before You Get Better Sarah Cardwell 24/01/2019 15:34 GMT This week I attended my second week of DBT (dialectical behavioural therapy and it was hard). The first week was hard, so I was expecting to feel safer this week, knowing the format, the room, the people and I thought I would be able to be more prepared and dive right in when it started . I was proud of myself for not following through on the excuses I had been planning all week. I had also thought…
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Health Insurers Are Still Skimping On Mental Health Coverage
Because of low reimbursement rates, Harbin said, professionals in the mental health and substance abuse fields are not willing to contract with insurers Health Insurers Are Still Skimping On Mental Health Coverage November 30, 201710:38 AM ET JENNY GOLD It has been nearly a decade since Congress passed the Mental Health Parity And Addiction Equity Act, with its promise to make mental health and substance abuse treatment just as easy to get as care for any other condition. Yet today, amid an opioid epidemic and a spike in the suicide rate, patients are still struggling to get access to treatment although there are lot of companies that are still providing…
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Borderline Personality Disorder: Treatment Resistance Reconsidered
A major longitudinal study of BPD and other personality disorders with 16 years of follow-up showed that virtually all subjects with BPD achieve sustained remission for at least 2 years, and 78% sustain remission for 8 years. Borderline Personality Disorder: Treatment Resistance Reconsidered November 27, 2017 | Special Reports, Borderline Personality, Psychopharmacology By Lois W. Choi-kain, MD, Ethan I. Glasserman, and Ellen F. Finch The concept of treatment resistance deserves reconsideration. Originally formulated in psychoanalytic terms, resistance in treatment referred to the inevitable ways patients unconsciously express their psychology in terms of defense mechanisms and transference enactment. This form of resistance provides a window into the patient’s problems; therefore, it…
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Borderline Personality Disorder: Not Just an Adult Condition
Many start engaging in high-risk behaviors, such as substance abuse or self-harm, to help deal with the emptiness. The picture of BPD begins to emerge. Borderline Personality Disorder: Not Just an Adult Condition Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW November 20, 2017 To shed light on this ongoing controversy and its therapeutic implications, Psychiatry Advisor interviewed Carla Sharp, PhD, professor and director of clinical training in the Department of Psychology at the University of Houston, Texas. Dr Sharp is the co-editor of the Handbook of Borderline Personality Disorder in Children and Adolescents2 and the co-founder of the Global Alliance for Early Prevention and Intervention for Borderline Personality Disorder (GAP) Initiative. Psychiatry…
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OBAMACARE’S DEMISE IS A LOOMING DISASTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH
A recent CDC report shows that the percentage of adults with serious psychological distress who are uninsured has dropped from 28.1 percent in 2012 to 19.5 percent in the first nine months of 2015. OBAMACARE’S DEMISE IS A LOOMING DISASTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AUTHOR: ISSIE LAPOWSKY Look at a map of states president-elect Donald Trump won in November alongside a map of states with the highest rates of opioid prescriptions, and you’ll see they mostly overlap. Look more closely at the data, as one Penn State professor recently did, and you’ll find that Trump outperformed his Republican predecessor Mitt Romney the most in counties where opiate and suicide mortality rates…
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Trumpcare Will Be Catastrophic For People With Mental Health Issues
Experts in behavioral health and lawmakers who have been fighting for mental health awareness vehemently oppose the legislation. Trumpcare Will Be Catastrophic For People With Mental Health Issues House Republicans on Thursday passed an updated version of the American Health Care Act, which could affect the millions of people who live with a mental health or substance-use disorder. Analysis of the GOP bill by various organizations shows a grim outlook. Not only would people dealing with mental health conditions or drug dependency have to pay higher premiums, many may not even be covered. This could have serious consequences, with the country in the throes of one of history’s worst opioid…