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Personality disorders affect one in seven adults
Borderline personalities are unpredictable, self-destructive and often see things in black and white. Personality disorders affect one in seven adults By Fred Cicetti Q. A friend who uses a lot of psychobabble described a new woman in our retirement community as having a “personality disorder.” I would call this woman a pain in the neck. What’s the difference between a personality disorder and just a lousy personality? A. People with a personality disorder are more than just pains in the neck. They have serious trouble getting along with others. They are usually rigid and unable to adapt to the changes life presents to all of us. They simply don’t function…
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Personality disorder: Woman’s ‘suffocating’ illness
Overwhelming, suffocating and a rollercoaster of emotions Personality disorder: Woman’s ‘suffocating’ illness By Catherine Smyth Those are some of the words Felicity McKee from Armagh uses to describe living with a personality disorder. The 25-year-old social anthropology student at Queen’s University received the dual diagnosis of an eating disorder and what is known as Borderline Personality Disorder five years ago. She says that, while eating disorders are becoming better understood by the public and professionals, the stigma surrounding personality disorders remains a major issue. … Felicity says on bad days she can feel “completely overwhelmed”. “I become a blubbering mess and I am difficult to rationalize with, even though logically…
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Should You Tell Your Boss About Your Mental Health Condition?
She discloses to her employers that she has “vague” problems with her mental health, but hasn’t told them she has borderline personality disorder (BPD). Should You Tell Your Boss About Your Mental Health Condition? By Hannah Ewens Most people I know with an ongoing mental health condition haven’t told their employer about it. We’ll send one another memes about panic attacks and joke about periods of psychosis, but there’s no way we can be that casual in the workplace. In a fair world, employers wouldn’t judge you for having a condition, and anyone who has an illness would have access to some form of work—which often helps with self-esteem and…
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When bigotry invades mental healthcare: Women, sexual minorities are most vulnerable to harassment
From being slapped to being shamed, members of marginal communities have few places to seek help for mental illnesses. When bigotry invades mental healthcare: Women, sexual minorities are most vulnerable to harassment Prateek Sharma “I was talking about my nightmares to my therapist and while in the middle of that I accidentally told him that I am a bisexual and out of nowhere he just slapped me and asked me to go away. The incident did make me badly depressed, took a toll on my health and everything. I already have ADD and OCD and that’s what I was seeing the therapist for. So the depression just doubled from there…
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I Was Very, Very Afraid of the Dark
In retrospect all that paranoia was—I’ve been told—an early warning sign of my borderline personality disorder, bipolar, and severe anxiety. I Was Very, Very Afraid of the Dark By Patrick Marlborough I suffered from acute night terrors and paranoia as a kid, and I still feel the after-effects today. Night terrors, aka pavor nocturnus, is one of two non-Rapid Eye Movement sleep arousal disorders in the DSM-5. It’s a lot like sleep paralysis, but instead of being stuck in a sort of limbo waking state, you’re frozen by sheer terror. They often come accompanied by screaming and panic attacks. I always had a hyperactive imagination: no trouble conjuring up stories…
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Documentary ‘Borderline’ gives filmmaker, who has diagnosis herself, peace of mind
She discovered a 45-year-old Manhattan resident, R., who opened herself up for the camera — meltdowns and all — as she tried to navigate a condition that drove her to attempt suicide and cost her both a job and a lover. Documentary ‘Borderline’ gives filmmaker, who has diagnosis herself, peace of mind by Ethan Sacks If the documentary “Borderline” seems like a deeply personal film, that’s because director Rebbie Ratner knows the subject matter all too well. She’s been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) herself. The film, which screens at the IFC Center on Friday, November 11 at 10:45 a.m. and Cinépolis Chelsea on Sunday, November 13 at 12:30…