Gun Control and BPD
“Having the scarlet letter saying you had a mental health issue… that prevents you from purchasing a weapon, I’m not sure that’s a wise policy statement,” said Mark Pearlmutter, an emergency physician in Boston and an expert on mental health issues. “However, anyone who has history of violence, incarceration, borderline personality disorder, or unpredictability, I would personally support those patients not having access to weapons.” Bon: I am NOT getting political here. I wanted to point out that I would never own a gun while living with a person with Borderline Personality Disorder. The impulsiveness + suicidal ideation + access to a gun = a very dangerous situation. D.C. shift:…
Happy Victimization: Emotion Dysregulation in The Context of Instrumental, Proactive Aggression
How the role of attachment, amygdala response and the mirror neuron system play out in aggression types in BPD and Psychopathy Here is a snip from a very interesting blog post by William Lu, who was a graduate student in psychology when he wrote it in 2010: I recently read a fascinating book chapter written by William Arsenio titled Happy Victimization: Emotion Dysregulation in The Context of Instrumental, Proactive Aggression. Early in the chapter, the author discussed how according to a study, 4-year-old children tended to predict that a bully would feel happy after pushing around some poor chump on the playground, aka happy victimization (Arsenio & Kramer, 1992). However, at age…
Mentalization shows promise moderating psychopathic aggression
The lack of affective responsiveness to others’ mental states – one of the hallmarks of psychopathy – is thought to give rise to increased interpersonal aggression. Attachment-Related Mentalization Moderates the Relationship Between Psychopathic Traits and Proactive Aggression in Adolescence. Taubner S, White LO, Zimmermann J, Fonagy P, Nolte T. Source Department of Psychology, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany, Svenja.taubner@uni-kassel.de. Abstract The lack of affective responsiveness to others’ mental states – one of the hallmarks of psychopathy – is thought to give rise to increased interpersonal aggression. Recent models of psychopathy highlight deficits in attachment security that may, in turn, impede the development of relating to others in terms of mental…
The BPD-o-Meter: Lindsay Lohan arrested in New York, accused of punching woman
Actress Lindsay Lohan was arrested outside a New York nightclub on an assault charge early Thursday after she punched another woman in the face, police said. Bon: Oh, Lindsay… time to get some minders. It’s been a while since I wrote anything on celebs with possible BPD. For more info about Lindsay click here. Lindsay Lohan arrested in New York, accused of punching woman REUTERS – Actress Lindsay Lohan was arrested outside a New York nightclub on an assault charge early Thursday after she punched another woman in the face, police said. Lohan and the 28-year-old unidentified woman had some sort of dispute inside the club Avenue in Manhattan around…
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Bullying linked with borderline personality disorder in children
UK study results suggest that children who are bullied by their peers in primary school have an increased risk for developing borderline personality disorder (BPD) during childhood. Bullying linked with borderline personality disorder in children (Link) By Lauretta Ihonor, MedWire Reporter UK study results suggest that children who are bullied by their peers in primary school have an increased risk for developing borderline personality disorder (BPD) during childhood. And this appears to remain true irrespective of the type of bullying experienced by the child, say Dieter Wolke, from the University of Warwick in Coventry, and co-authors. They add: “In particular, children who were exposed to combined (overt and relational) or…
I Want To Kill You Before There Is A Chance That You’ll Break My Heart
I love him enough to want him dead. I’ve never giving my heart to anyone before and wasn’t really intending to do so ever. My plan was to plan the perfect life and live it… I didn’t really know about all the feelings I was ‘supposed’ to have for a partner. When I learned about this feeling and the vulnerability of love, I realize that it’s a dangerous game. I don’t want to play. Bon: Interesting article from a woman with BPD… I Want To Kill You Before There Is A Chance That You’ll Break My Heart (link) Posted August 14th, 2010 at 3:33AM I love him enough to want…
