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What’s the difference between borderline personality disorder and bipolar?
People sometimes confuse borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder because they can have similar symptoms, such as intense emotional responses, depression, and impulsive behavior. Borderline personality disorder vs. bipolar disorder BPD is a type of personality disorder that causes people to feel, think, relate, and behave differently than people without the condition. Bipolar disorder is a type of mood disorder, which is a category of illnesses that can cause severe mood changes. People with BPD experience an ongoing cycle of varying self-image, moods, and behaviors. These patterns typically cause issues that affect a person’s life and relationships and the way in which they understand and relate to others. READ THE…
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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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Why giving your mental illness a name can help you recover
Being diagnosed with a mental illness can be life-changing. Why giving your mental illness a name can help you recover Fiona Thomas for Metro.co.uk Sunday 5 Nov 2017 8:00 am Studies show that one in four people have been diagnosed with a mental illness at some point in their lives, but how does the diagnosis itself impact the individual? You would think that labeling someone with a mental illness might illicit a negative response, and maybe even make their symptoms worse. But Dr Jelena Goranovic, Director at the Sussex Wellbeing Company, confirms that there are positive aspects when someone receives a formal diagnosis. Dr Goranovic says you may be ‘feeling…
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Borderline or Bipolar: Can 3 Questions Differentiate Them?
The Prisoner’s Dilemma paradigm separates the two, but that’s not practical as a clinical tool. Borderline or Bipolar: Can 3 Questions Differentiate Them? January 10, 2017 | Bipolar Disorder, Mood Disorders By James Phelps, MD Treatments for borderlinity and bipolarity are quite different. Which approach should you consider for a patient with impulsive risk-taking, episodes of irritability and hostility, fractured relationships, substance use problems, and severe depressions with brief phases of remission (maybe too good?) in between? The Prisoner’s Dilemma paradigm separates the two,1 but that’s not practical as a clinical tool. What if you could pluck just 3 items from a standard bipolar screening questionnaire and increase your diagnostic…
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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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I am more than my _____
Like every other movement working against stigma, pride is a powerful primary tool. Self-acceptance comes first. I am more than my _____ BY LAUREN DIAZ | NOVEMBER 19, 2015, 11:50 AM “How about I hold up a sign that says, ‘I AM MORE THAN MY BPD?’” “How about you don’t?” This is a brief exchange I had with myself at the 2015 photo campaign for Active Minds at Columbia University, entitled “My Mental Health Matters.” The table was littered with an array of paper signs to choose from, but I was drawn to the one with the blank. This could have been my coming out, but the stigma-fearing answer was…
