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Court unable to intervene in treatment of vulnerable woman
The €400,000 annual costs of her care in St Andrew’s hospital in Northampton, England, was enough to build a unit for her here, the judge previously observed. Court unable to intervene in treatment of vulnerable woman Mary Carolan A lengthy legal action over the treatment of a vulnerable young Irish woman, who was returned here last summer after being involuntarily detained for more than 20 months in a specialised psychiatric unit in England, has concluded without a satisfactory outcome. Mr Justice Seamus Noonan said, although reports showed the woman had refused to engage in recommended therapies and was not making progress, his hands were tied given his previous High Court…
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Having borderline personality disorder helps me in my NHS job
People with personality disorders are often the most vulnerable in society, but providing adequate treatment isn’t cheap or easy. Having borderline personality disorder helps me in my NHS job Some people have said it’s a career death sentence but my lived experience of mental health problems makes me a more compassionate clinician I work for the NHS as a psychological wellbeing practitioner. I love it. I want to give something back and help others as, in my early twenties, I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD), one of the most stigmatised mental health conditions. People suffering with BPD are often described as manipulative, violent, attention-seeking and impossible to treat.…
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Ignore Your Feelings
We certainly share a lot with DBT, a kind of CBT for people who have intensely destructive feelings—dialectic behavioral therapy. Particularly because it started out with the idea that it was directly for people who were suffering terribly. Ignore Your Feelings A profanity-filled new self-help book argues that life is kind of terrible, so you should value your actions over your emotions. OLGA KHAZAN SEP 9, 2015 Put down the talking stick. Stop fruitlessly seeking “closure” with your peevish co-worker. And please, don’t bother telling your spouse how annoying you find their tongue-clicking habit—sometimes honesty is less like a breath of fresh air and more like a fart. That’s the…
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Study Will Evaluate Bipolar Medication in Treating Borderline Personality Disorder
The secondary outcomes are depressive symptoms, deliberate self-harm, social functioning, health-related quality of life, resource use and costs, side effects of treatment, adverse events, and withdrawal of trial medication due to adverse effects. Study Will Evaluate Bipolar Medication in Treating Borderline Personality Disorder Aug 12, 2015 | Bill Schu Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is challenging to diagnose and treat. As yet, there are no drugs currently licensed for BPD treatment. In fact, guidance from England’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommends that pharmacologic therapy not be used for patients with BPD at all. This is potentially troubling, because those patients typically experience rapid and extreme changes in mood,…
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The comorbidity of borderline personality disorder and post traumatic stress disorder
Lifetime comorbidity of BPD and PTSD was associated with more dysfunction than either individual disorder. The comorbidity of borderline personality disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder: revisiting the prevalence and associations in a general population sample The comorbidity of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is frequent, yet not well understood. The influence of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) in the development of this comorbidity has been a focus of prior clinical studies, but empirical evidence to generalize this focus to the broader population is lacking. Primary aims of the present study included evaluation of: (a) the association of this comorbidity with decrements in health-related quality of life (HRQOL)…
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The attitudes of psychiatric hospital staff toward hospitalization and treatment of patients with borderline personality disorder
Nurses and psychiatrists reported encountering a higher number of patients with BPD during the last month, and exhibited more negative attitudes and less empathy toward these patients than the other professions. The attitudes of psychiatric hospital staff toward hospitalization and treatment of patients with borderline personality disorder Ehud Bodner, Sara Cohen-Fridel, Mordechai Mashiah, Michael Segal, Alexander Grinshpoon, Tzvi Fischel and Iulian Iancu Background Negative attitudes towards patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) may affect their treatment. We aimed to identify attitudes toward patients with BPD. Methods Clinicians in four psychiatric hospitals in Israel (n=710; psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and nurses) were approached and completed questionnaires on attitudes toward these patients.…
