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Five things you can do as a supporter of a person with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
Five of the first things you can do when you discover that someone you care for has Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). I often have “newbies” or beginning non-BPD family members ask me some things they can do to get acclimated to the world of BPD. I have thought about this long and hard and have come up with these five things: 1. Watch “Back from the Edge”. This 48 minute documentary was made by New York Presbyterian Hospital and includes some of the world’s most knowledgeable experts in the treatment and understanding of BPD, including Dr. Marsha Linehan, the inventor of DBT. The video is available here: Back from the Edge…
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Tips For Teaching Teens Compassion, Empathy
Independence is earned by demonstration of responsible behavior. In other words, if your teen is responsible by consistent demonstration of getting his homework finished on time, coming home before curfew, going to sleep and rising on time—then he should be rewarded with increments of extra freedom and independence. Tips For Teaching Teens Compassion, Empathy (link) Dr. Fran Walfish Answers Your Questions Q: Dear Dr. Fran, my wife and I are worried about our 16-year-old daughter. At times she can be cold, callous, and mean to us. Compassion does not seem to be part of her personality. Can this be taught? Please help us! -Jason E. A: Dear Jason: empathy and…
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Bullying and borderline personality disorder: a missing link
New research suggests that bullying and victimization by other children during the elementary school years should be acknowledged as another important risk factor. Bullying and borderline personality disorder: a missing link 04 April 2013 Children abused by adults are known to be at increased risk of developing the serious and persistent mental illness known as borderline personality-disorder (BPD). New research suggests that bullying and victimization by other children during the elementary school years should be acknowledged as another important risk factor. Psychologists in Britain, Germany and the United States base their conclusions on an analysis of data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) which has followed…
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Quote from “Back from the Edge” Documentary
The mother of one of the young women with BPD says this: “What really helped me was when I realized that it wasn’t about me, that I wasn’t necessarily what she was angry at and the target of it, that I was just there to be somebody that she could vent all of this feeling that was about something else.” (at 39:30 in the documentary). This is the very thing that helped me too – and lead to the “it’s all about his/her feelings” thing that I wrote about in WHINE. Watch the documentary. No related posts.
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Author shares daughter’s journal entries during Borderline Personality Disorder treatments
Pat Engebrecht shares her family’s heartbreaking struggle with Borderline Personality Disorder in “When Love is Not Enough The Chronicles of LauraJo”. Author shares daughter’s journal entries during Borderline Personality Disorder treatments By Mel Fabrikant Thursday, August 16, 2012, 03:45 PM EDT Pat Engebrecht shares her family’s heartbreaking struggle with Borderline Personality Disorder in “When Love is Not Enough The Chronicles of LauraJo”. For more than a decade, Pat Engebrecht and her family struggled to understand daughter LauraJo’s diagnosis, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). In “When Love is Not Enough The Chronicles of LauraJo” (ISBN 1461185785), she explains what it was like to be the mother of a young woman with an…
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Spanking linked to increased risk of mental health problems
A child who is spanked, slapped, grabbed or shoved as a form of punishment runs a higher risk of becoming an adult who suffers from a wide range of mental and personality disorders, even when that harsh physical punishment was occasional and when the child experienced no more extreme form of violence or abuse at the hands of a parent or caregiver. Spanking linked to increased risk of mental health problems (LINK) By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles TimesFor the Booster Shots blog July 2, 2012, 3:15 p.m. A child who is spanked, slapped, grabbed or shoved as a form of punishment runs a higher risk of becoming an adult who suffers…