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Interesting Video in which Marsha Linehan Answers Questions about the Stigma of “Borderline”
Marsha Linehan, the developer of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), answers questions including one about the stigma of the term borderline: No related posts.
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Mental disorder seen as ‘badness, not sickness’
Many clinicians regard borderline personality disorder as untreatable trouble By Bruce Bower Web edition: August 14, 2013 NEW YORK CITY — Psychiatrists regularly get criticized for turning typical life problems into medical disorders. But in an odd reversal, many mental health clinicians are trying to transform one certified mental illness, borderline personality disorder, into a label for needy, manipulative people who don’t need treatment, a sociologist reported at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting on August 11. Patients with borderline personality disorder, unlike people with schizophrenia or other serious mental conditions, are often viewed by mental health providers as having cynically planned out rash acts and even suicide attempts, sociologist…
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A system that fails troubled teens
Teens whose multiple diagnoses meant that her see-saw emotions were extremely challenging to treat, especially in a mental health system that is over-burdened and difficult for desperate families to navigate. A system that fails troubled teens GAYLE MACDONALD From Friday’s Globe and Mail – with correction Published Thursday, Jun. 27 2013, 9:00 PM EDT Last updated Thursday, Jul. 04 2013, 10:09 AM EDT Katherine Duff is 16. She comes from a close-knit Toronto family. She has a part-time-job and gets straight As. She loves poetry, watching movies with her younger sister, and going out with friends for dinner or to the mall. She adores animals, especially dogs. And she wants…
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Active Minds hosts Pershall to combat mental illness stigmas
Pershall spoke about her battle with anorexia, bulimia and borderline personality disorder. Active Minds hosts Pershall to combat mental illness stigmas By Daniel Mcinerney Courtesy of www.activeminds.org For three days, Stacy Pershall suffered from violent seizures that left her body bruised and her tongue so badly bitten and swollen that she was unable to talk. The seizures were the result of a near-fatal drug overdose from an attempted suicide. On Thursday night, Active Minds, a national student organization dedicated to removing the stigmas associated with mental illnesses, invited Pershall to tell her story during National Eating Disorder Week. Speaking to a full theater in Trabant University Center, Pershall recounted the…
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DBT Skill of the Day: Wise Mind from the Mindfulness Module
Wise mind is a balance between Reasonable (or Rational) mind and Emotional Mind. Like many skills in DBT, it’s a synthesis of the two opposing mental forces (that’s what dialectics is all about). Marsha Linehan, the inventor of DBT, states: “”Wise mind is that part of each person that can know and experience truth. It is where the person knows something to be true or valid. It is almost always quiet, It has a certain peace. It is where the person knows something in a centered way.” There are 3 states of mind when we think about Wise Mind and Mindfulness. They are described as follows: Reasonable Mind When you…
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DBT Assumptions for people with BPD and their loved ones
DBT begins with a set of assumptions. It is important for both the participant in DBT and their loved ones to keep these in mind when interacting with the therapy and in their daily lives. These assumptions are: People are doing the best they can. (This includes the person with BPD and their loved ones) People want to improve. People need to do better, try harder and be more effective and more motivated to change. People may not have caused all of their own problems, but they have to solve them anyway. The lives of the suicidal, depressed, anxious and angry people are painful as they currently are being lived. All people…