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Widely Used Bipolar Screening Test Widely Wrong
A widely-used screening technique (the Mood Disorder Questionnaire) mistook borderline personality disorder for bipolar disorder. http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/03/25/is.it.really.bipolar.disorder Is it really bipolar disorder? Published: Thursday, March 25, 2010 – 13:00 in Health & Medicine A study from Rhode Island Hospital has shown that a widely-used screening tool for bipolar disorder may incorrectly indicate borderline personality disorder rather than bipolar disorder. In the article that appears online ahead of print in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, the researchers question the effectiveness of the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ). The MDQ is the most widely-used and studied screening tool for bipolar disorder. It is a brief questionnaire that assesses whether a patient displays some of…
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DSM-V Changes to Personality Disorders
Here is a chart comparing DSM-IV personality disorders to DSM-V personality types. Notice that NPD, Paranoid, Schizoid, and others have no DSM-V comparable disorder and are a combination of prominent personality traits. DSM-5 Type and Trait Cross-Walk DSM-IV Personality Disorder DSM-5 Personality Disorder Type Prominent Personality Traits Paranoid None Suspiciousness Intimacy avoidance Hostility Unusual beliefs Schizoid None Social withdrawal Social detachment Intimacy avoidance Restricted affectivity Anhedonia Schizotypal Schizotypal (4 or 5) Eccentricity Cognitive dysregulation Unusual perceptions Unusual beliefs Social withdrawal Restricted affectivity Intimacy avoidance Suspiciousness Anxiousness Antisocial Antisocial/Psychopathic (4 or 5) Callousness Aggression Manipulativeness Hostility Deceitfulness Narcissism Irresponsibility Recklessness Impulsivity Borderline Borderline (4 or 5) Emotional lability Self-harm Separation insecurity…
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People with Borderline Personality Disorder over diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder
Article from Science Daily about over-diagnosis of bipolar disorder: If Bipolar Disorder Is Over-diagnosed, What Are The Actual Diagnoses? ScienceDaily (July 29, 2009) — A year ago, a study by Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University researchers reported that fewer than half the patients previously diagnosed with bipolar disorder received an actual diagnosis of bipolar disorder after using a comprehensive, psychiatric diagnostic interview tool –the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID). In this follow-up study, the researchers have determined the actual diagnoses of those patients. Their study is published in the July 28 ahead of print online edition of The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. Under the direction of lead author…
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Reopened the diagnosis poll
I reopened the diagnosis poll now that I am getting more traffic. I have noticed in my email list and in general that BP’s go through at least 8 therapists before they start being real with someone. My wife has been through at least 10 therapists before she admitted to the suicidal ideation and the self-injury. She immediately dropped a therapist who diagnosed her with BPD. Is that you guy’s experience as well? No related posts.
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Article in Time about the DSM
Here’s an article about the DSM… Wednesday, Mar. 11, 2009 Redefining Crazy: Researchers Revise the DSM By John Cloud If you wanted to make a list of important books you should read, what would you choose? Anna Karenina, maybe? The Bible? How about the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders? It may not be at the top of your list, but the DSM, as it’s usually called, is one of the most important books in the world. It attempts to categorize, describe and give a code number to literally every problem that can occur in your mind, from schizophrenia to borderline personality disorder to something called mathematics disorder, which…
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BPD more prevelant than previously thought?
When I was reading the Time article on BPD – which is cited below and provides a nice new overview of BPD – I was struck by this quotation: A 2008 study of nearly 35,000 adults in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry found that 5.9%–which would translate into 18 million Americans–had been given a BPD diagnosis. As recently as 2000, the American Psychiatric Association believed that only 2% had BPD. (In contrast, clinicians diagnose bipolar disorder and schizophrenia in about 1% of the population.) BPD has long been regarded as an illness disproportionately affecting women, but the latest research shows no difference in prevalence rates for men and women. Regardless…