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Stigma unfair to those with mental illness
Borderline Personality Disorder is one of the newer recognized illnesses, but is estimated to affect 2 to 5 percent of Americans. Stigma unfair to those with mental illness DESPITE STIGMA, THE MENTALLY ILL ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE VICTIMS OF CRIME THAN PERPETRATORS. Kaitlin Durbin MANSFIELD – Jennifer Broderick was in her early 20s the first time she was caught stealing. She can’t remember what she took. Stuff was just stuff. It was only the act of stealing that satisfied her urges, and it didn’t matter that it was against the law. More than a decade later, Broderick’s psychiatrist told her depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and strong borderline personality…
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A Psychiatrist Explains What Kristen Wiig’s ‘Welcome to Me’ Gets Right About Mental Illness
People with borderline personality disorder often exhibit reckless behavior — including impulsive spending. A Psychiatrist Explains What Kristen Wiig’s ‘Welcome to Me’ Gets Right About Mental Illness Gwynne Watkins In the funny, fascinating drama Welcome to Me (now in select theaters and available on VOD), Kristen Wiig plays Alice Klieg, a woman with borderline personality disorder who uses lottery winnings to produce a television show entirely about herself. Alice is an unusual movie character, sympathetic in her desire to be loved like Oprah, yet off-putting in her bizarre, irrational behavior. But does she provide an accurate portrait of borderline personality disorder, a condition characterized by unstable moods, behavior and relationships?…
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Bipolar vs. Borderline Personality Disorder: The Differences Between The Two And How To Avoid Misdiagnosis
According to a study published in Psychiatry, a large number of bipolar patients (up to 69 percent) are misdiagnosed initially, and up to one-third remain misdiagnosed for a long time afterward. Bipolar vs. Borderline Personality Disorder: The Differences Between The Two And How To Avoid Misdiagnosis May 28, 2015 09:00 AM By Lecia Bushak While bipolar and borderline personality disorder have similar symptoms — such as extreme mood swings — that can oft confuse the two, they’re completely different conditions that have their own unique treatments. Diagnosing either of the disorders is extremely difficult and requires extensive questioning, medical history, and information about the person’s background and symptoms to get…
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Why Bipolar Disorder Is Often Misdiagnosed
Zimmerman says, bipolar disorder shares some symptoms with borderline personality disorder, a condition marked by impulsive behavior and problems relating to other people — and because of this, people who have borderline personality disorder are often misdiagnosed as bipolar. Why Bipolar Disorder Is Often Misdiagnosed By Jennifer Acosta Scott Reviewed by Farrokh Sohrabi, MD Bipolar disorder is missed in some people and mistakenly diagnosed in others. Find out why. About four percent of people in the United States are diagnosed with bipolar disorder at some point in their lives, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In recent years, however, some researchers have called some of those diagnoses…
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The Biology of Borderline (and a Diagnostic Tip)
The importance of gathering sufficient information for diagnosis is particularly important for borderline personality disorder (BPD), which encompasses multiple symptoms that overlap across many diagnoses in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), making its identification challenging. The Biology of Borderline (and a Diagnostic Tip) Derick E. Vergne, MD March 23, 2015 Diagnosis in psychiatry continues to be based on observation. However, economic forces are driving the norm of inaccurate diagnoses after an initial interview lasting less than an hour. To that extent clinicians are taught to rely heavily on the history documented in a patient’s medical chart, the diagnostic information found in all records is the result…
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Misdiagnoses More Common for Socially Disadvantaged Groups
Conversely, if the client is African American, the same symptoms might be seen as proof of the client’s persistent borderline personality disorder. Misdiagnoses More Common for Socially Disadvantaged Groups Mar 25, 2015 Rachel Lutz Socially disadvantaged groups are twice as likely to receive mental health misdiagnoses, according to research published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science. Researchers from the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel focused on mental health clinics serving low to middle class populations, and specifically patients who were Jews of Asian/African descent (Mizrahi) and Jews of European/American descent (Ashkenazi) in 3 cities in Israel. The researchers investigated the accuracy of diagnostic decisions, which they believed were…