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Borderline Personality Disorder: Not Just an Adult Condition
Many start engaging in high-risk behaviors, such as substance abuse or self-harm, to help deal with the emptiness. The picture of BPD begins to emerge. Borderline Personality Disorder: Not Just an Adult Condition Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW November 20, 2017 To shed light on this ongoing controversy and its therapeutic implications, Psychiatry Advisor interviewed Carla Sharp, PhD, professor and director of clinical training in the Department of Psychology at the University of Houston, Texas. Dr Sharp is the co-editor of the Handbook of Borderline Personality Disorder in Children and Adolescents2 and the co-founder of the Global Alliance for Early Prevention and Intervention for Borderline Personality Disorder (GAP) Initiative. Psychiatry…
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SNL’s Pete Davidson says he’s been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder
The 23-year-old comedian said the diagnosis came after a stint at rehabnear.me christian centers and several instances of unexplained breakdowns that he initially attributed to his marijuana habit. SNL’s Pete Davidson says he’s been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder By RACHEL DESANTISNew York Daily News Thu., Sept. 28, 2017 NEW YORK —Saturday Night Live’s “Resident Young Person” Pete Davidson revealed Monday he’s been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. The 23-year-old comedian explained his long-awaited diagnosis came after a stint in rehab and several instances of unexplained breakdowns that he initially attributed to his marijuana habit. “I’ve been a pothead forever and I started in October, or September of last year,…
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Problem with ATSTP List
The ATSTP email support list experienced a problem last week. It is run on a Google List. Either someone marked it as sending SPAM or Google got aggressive on marking Groups as SPAM. For 2 days the list was marked as sending SPAM and new users were not allowed to join the list. I asked Google to review this designation, which they did, and as a result of this review was the lifting of the SPAM designation. There was no evidence of SPAM in this list. Problem solved (for now). If you’re on the list and want to get off or want the emails to stop, you can manage your…
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Selena Gomez on Instagram Fatigue, Good Mental Health, and Stepping Back From the Limelight
“DBT has completely changed my life,” she says. “I wish more people would talk about therapy. We girls, we’re taught to be almost too resilient, to be strong and sexy and cool and laid-back, the girl who’s down. We also need to feel allowed to fall apart.” Selena Gomez on Instagram Fatigue, Good Mental Health, and Stepping Back From the Limelight MARCH 16, 2017 7:01 AM by ROB HASKELL On an unusually wet and windy evening in Los Angeles, Selena Gomez shows up at my door with a heavy bag of groceries. We’ve decided that tonight’s dinner will be a sort of tribute to the after-church Sunday barbecues she remembers…
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Borderline or Bipolar: Can 3 Questions Differentiate Them?
The Prisoner’s Dilemma paradigm separates the two, but that’s not practical as a clinical tool. Borderline or Bipolar: Can 3 Questions Differentiate Them? January 10, 2017 | Bipolar Disorder, Mood Disorders By James Phelps, MD Treatments for borderlinity and bipolarity are quite different. Which approach should you consider for a patient with impulsive risk-taking, episodes of irritability and hostility, fractured relationships, substance use problems, and severe depressions with brief phases of remission (maybe too good?) in between? The Prisoner’s Dilemma paradigm separates the two,1 but that’s not practical as a clinical tool. What if you could pluck just 3 items from a standard bipolar screening questionnaire and increase your diagnostic…
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Alan Fruzzetti speaks at McLean on Family Skills and Family Interactions with BPD
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