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Emotion regulation strategies distinguish borderline, bipolar II
Outpatients with borderline personality disorder scored “significantly higher than those with [bipolar II] on a number of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies, including difficulty controlling impulsive behaviors. Emotion regulation strategies distinguish borderline, bipolar II By: KAREN BLUM, Clinical Psychiatry News Digital Network Borderline personality disorder and bipolar II disorder share some common features, but the illnesses can be distinguished by patients’ differences in emotion regulation strategies and perceptions of how their parents raised them, according to a report published online in the Journal of Affective Disorders. Forty-eight psychiatric outpatients, half with borderline personality disorder and half with bipolar II, were recruited by Kathryn Fletcher of the University of New South Wales,…
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Borderline Personality Disorder: Is It Just An Excuse?
Is borderline personality disorder a real diagnosis or is it just a way to let someone who’s selfish, impulsive and mean off the hook for their bad behavior? Borderline Personality Disorder: Is It Just An Excuse? By RICHARD ZWOLINSKI, LMHC, CASAC & C.R. ZWOLINSKI Is borderline personality disorder a real diagnosis or is it just a way to let someone who’s selfish, impulsive and mean off the hook for their bad behavior? If you’re shocked by the above question, don’t be. Some therapists will tell you that without education, spouses, children, and especially colleagues of those with BPD might feel the diagnosis is a “sham” or an “excuse for bad…
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Will the new DSM-5 change the way we deal with the Americans with Disability Act?
DSM-5 does not treat personality disorders separately from other mental disorders as did its predecessors. Will the DSM-5 Lead to Crazy Employment Law? From the Experts By James J. McDonald Jr. The American Psychiatric Association released a new edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, known as “DSM-5,” on May 18. Although the manual is primarily used by psychiatrists and other mental health professionals in diagnosing patients, its influence extends to the courts and the development of employment law as well. DSM-5 will surely affect employment law profoundly, but it may well do so in some disparate and unpredictable ways. DSM-5 is likely to expand the number of…
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Psychiatry is failing those with personality disorders
A workable diagnostic system is needed, because sticking with the status quo is not an option Psychiatry is failing those with personality disorders 05 December 2012 IF DOCTORS sent patients with angina home with nothing but a prescription for a painkiller to control chest pain, they would be sued for malpractice. Sadly, that is a fitting analogy for what happens all too often to people with personality disorders. These conditions can wreck lives. Take borderline personality disorder, the most visible of the 10 such disorders currently recognised by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Emotional instability can wreak havoc on the relationships of people with this condition. All too often, there…
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DSM-V: Personality disorder revamp ends in ‘horrible waste’
Rather than receiving intensive psychotherapy, which can be effective, patients with personality disorders often get treated for the anxiety and depression that can be triggered by their difficulties with social interaction. Personality disorder revamp ends in ‘horrible waste’ 11:00 03 December 2012 by Peter Aldhous A planned overhaul of the way in which personality disorders are diagnosed will not now appear in the manual dubbed “the bible of psychiatry”. The failure to agree a workable system for the next edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, known as DSM-5 is bad news for people with serious personality difficulties, who are frequently misdiagnosed. “It’s a…
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NY Times: Thinking Clearly About Personality Disorders
This weekend the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association will vote on whether to adopt a new diagnostic system for some of the most serious, and striking, syndromes in medicine: personality disorders. Thinking Clearly About Personality Disorders By BENEDICT CAREY For years they have lived as orphans and outliers, a colony of misfit characters on their own island: the bizarre one and the needy one, the untrusting and the crooked, the grandiose and the cowardly. Their customs and rituals are as captivating as any tribe’s, and at least as mystifying. Every mental anthropologist who has visited their world seems to walk away with a different story, a new…