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To Fix Your Body, First You Must Fix Your Soul
This pattern of impulse control failure had manifested itself most obviously in various unwise moves I’d made with regards to my career, online. I’d posted scathing letters and blog posts about my employers or business associates, for example, over the past decade, and though I’d incredibly thought at the time that such actions would help me to gain sympathy, these things always turned around to bite me. In the end, the only person who ended up hurt by my public tantrums was…me. An article from Alsia Valdes about BPD and her relationship. To Fix Your Body, First You Must Fix Your Soul by Alisa Valdes 1/24/2012 It’s funny how things…
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Major Depressive Disorder and BPD
A little while ago, I posted an study about the over-lap between Major Depressive Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder. The last sentence of this study was “In the meantime, the clinician treating major depressive disorder would be wise to assess for borderline personality disorder, even as currently defined.” That was because the study found a large correlation between the two disorders. Today, I was reviewing an article by Marsha Linehan called “Two-Year Randomized Controlled Trialand Follow-up of Dialectical Behavior Therapyvs Therapy by Experts for Suicidal Behaviorsand Borderline Personality Disorder” which I had planned to write something up about. I’ll have to do that later, but the reason these thoughts of MDD and BPD…
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Interesting Interview with Dr. Leland Heller about BPD
“Much of it comes from self-destructive behaviors that are used to stop the horrible pain of dysphoria; anxiety, rage, depression and despair. When an individual behaves out-of-control, in a manner that’s inconsistent with their beliefs or normal choices, terrible self-hate develops. Additionally many individuals had low self-esteem and related problems since childhood and are in an environment that causes self-hate to flourish.” – from the interview Bon: I found an interview with Dr. Leland Heller about Borderline Personality Disorder. He does a good job explaining the pain associated with the disorder… Here are some excerpts. The entire interview can be read here. Diagnosing Borderline Personality Disorder And Finding Treatment That…
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Amy Winehouse and BPD
One of my twitter followers posted the original Daily Star article about Amy Winehouse and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Of course, I’d had Amy on my Celebrities with Possible BPD list for many years. If you want to read all of my articles about Amy Winehouse click here. I have no idea why the title includes ‘Mental Illness’ in quotes. Maybe it was because they were quoting the relative or maybe it brings up the question as to whether BPD is an actual mental illness. Here is the text of the article (and my comments below): TRAGIC AMY WINEHOUSE HAD ‘MENTAL ILLNESS’ TROUBLED Amy Winehouse suffered from an undiagnosed mental…
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The ICD-10 may provide a better diagnostic criteria for borderline than the DSM-V
Recently read an article in Psychiatric Times in which the author of the article argued that the new DSM-V “dimensional” approach to borderline personality disorder specifically and personalty disorders in general would be much too time-consuming to implement than the criteria of the ICD-10. Here are the ICD-10 criteria: F60.3 Emotionally Unstable (Borderline) Personality Disorder A personality disorder in which there is a marked tendency to act impulsively without consideration of the consequences, together with affective instability. The ability to plan ahead may be minimal, and outbursts of intense anger may often lead to violence or “behavioural explosions”; these are easily precipitated when impulsive acts are criticized or thwarted by others. Two…
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Proposed Changes in the DSM-V for Borderline Personality Disorder
The proposed DSM-V changes to the criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): The essential features of a personality disorder are impairments in personality (self and interpersonal) functioning and the presence of pathological personality traits. To diagnose borderline personality disorder, the following criteria must be met: A. Significant impairments in personality functioning manifest by: 1. Impairments in self functioning (a or b): a. Identity: Markedly impoverished, poorly developed, or unstable self-image, often associated with excessive self-criticism; chronic feelings of emptiness; dissociative states under stress. b. Self-direction: Instability in goals, aspirations, values, or career plans. AND 2. Impairments in interpersonal functioning (a or b): a. Empathy: Compromised ability to recognize the feelings and needs of others associated with interpersonal hypersensitivity (i.e.,…