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ABC News Experts talk about Casey Anthony’s potential disorder
An article from ABC News about Casey Anthony’s pathological lying and the disorder from which it may arise. Before I supply the text here, I want to discuss this quote: Two of the potential issues Anthony could suffer from are border personality disorder and psychopathology, the experts said. The main thing these issues have in common is a total lack of empathy, according to LeslieBeth Wish, a psychologist and licensed social worker in Sarasota, Fla. “They can turn a person into a non-person,” Wish said. “Borderline personalities have more emotional regulation problem and often use lying to get away from something and not ever feeling like they’re responsible.” Those two potential issues…
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Major changes in the DSM for personality disorders
An LA Times article about changes to the DSM for personality disorders: latimes.com BOOSTER SHOTS: Oddities, musings and news from the health world Personality disorders category is likely to be dramatically revised for next psychiatry textbook By Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times / For the Booster Shots blog 12:05 PM PDT, July 7, 2011 Several types of personality disorders will be dropped from the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. But one disorder previously proposed for elimination — narcissistic personality disorder — will likely remain in the text. The American Psychiatric Assn. announced Thursday that the framework for personality disorders in DSM-5 will be a…
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A Borderline Comes out of the Closet
Here’s an interesting article from a woman diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder and her struggles to escape the stigma of the diagnosis. Coming out of the Borderline Personality Disorder Closet (Without Hitting my Head on the Door Jamb) By SONIA NEALE Six years ago I was officially diagnosed by a psychiatrist in a psychiatric hospital as having…drum roll please…BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER. He said it to me in the same way he would announce he had a plague of rats infest his kitchen, discovered I had a sexually transmitted disease or that he had just found out I supported Tea Party candidate Sarah Palin. It was delivered with revulsion, disgust and contempt. Today…
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Understanding Major Depression With Borderline Personality Disorder?
The NIAAA study begins to spread out and spur on new views of the findings regarding BPD. Here is a study about Major Depressive Disorder and BPD. Can Epidemiology Translate Into Understanding Major Depression With Borderline Personality Disorder? Myrna M. Weissman, Ph.D. Epidemiologic surveys have mapped the terrain of psychiatric disorders. Personality disorders have bedeviled the clinician’s practice. Rarely have these two been rearranged in a meaningful clinical dialogue. Using the largest psychiatric epidemiologic survey ever, the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcoholism and Related Conditions, and among the few to venture into axis II disorders, Skodol et al. (1), in this issue of the Journal, give a community-based national view…
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Article about bipolar depression that mentions BPD
Here is an article about bipolar depression that mentions BPD. The mention says: Professor Richard Morriss, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Nottingham, said: ‘In people with depression who score highly on hypomania questionnaires there is a high prevalence of people with impulse control problems such as borderline personality disorder and intermittent explosive disorder who may superficially look like people with bipolar disorder.’ … which in combination with this finding: People with Borderline Personality Disorder over diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder …could have some interesting ramifications for the medical community. The text of the article: Bipolar depression unrecognised in primary care 03 Mar 11 By Christian Duffin Up to a…
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Development/Transmission of BPD: Genetic, Environmental or Cultural?
I was reading an article called “Social cognition in borderline personality disorder: evidence for disturbed recognition of the emotions, thoughts, and intentions of others” and noticed a line in the article that said this: “Thus, in addition to high heritability of BPD (Torgersen et al., 2008), these results argue that environmental factors (e.g., trauma) contribute to disturbed social cognition in BPD. In summary, for the current study we expected PTSD to be a negative predictor of social cognition.” That intrigued me on two levels. One was the “high heritability” part, because often I see comments about BPD and how many people believe that it is mainly caused by childhood trauma…