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How to set boundaries to protect yourself and improve living with a BP?
“How to set boundaries to protect yourself and improve living with a BP?” OK, I don’t normally do it, but today I went out to my old (circa 2005-2006) haunt – WTO (i.e. “Welcome to Oz”). WTO is the largest non-BP board on the Internet. It’s been around or at least 10 years and has over 4,000 members. Most of the members are quiet (like me). I used to post way back when and got into a number of “altercations” with people because I was presenting a different approach to people with BPD than the majority of the members. Mostly, it’s people who have just started trying to figure out…
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Anti-social Personality Disorder mistaken for BPD – when people get it wrong
I was disturbed to read this column in which Caroline Hutchinson of (apparently) “Mix FM” (some sort of radio station) said this about a story in which a boy was bullyed at a disco in Sydney. What I find troubling about her post about the incident is this… She says: There is a diagnosable condition known as a personality disorder. According to the American Psychiatric Association personality disorder typically rears its ugly head in late adolescence but, in rarer instances, childhood. It’s subjective, but a person with borderline personality disorder, should exhibit three or more of the following: 1. Failure to conform to lawful social norms – repeatedly performing acts…
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DSM-V Changes to Personality Disorders
Here is a chart comparing DSM-IV personality disorders to DSM-V personality types. Notice that NPD, Paranoid, Schizoid, and others have no DSM-V comparable disorder and are a combination of prominent personality traits. DSM-5 Type and Trait Cross-Walk DSM-IV Personality Disorder DSM-5 Personality Disorder Type Prominent Personality Traits Paranoid None Suspiciousness Intimacy avoidance Hostility Unusual beliefs Schizoid None Social withdrawal Social detachment Intimacy avoidance Restricted affectivity Anhedonia Schizotypal Schizotypal (4 or 5) Eccentricity Cognitive dysregulation Unusual perceptions Unusual beliefs Social withdrawal Restricted affectivity Intimacy avoidance Suspiciousness Anxiousness Antisocial Antisocial/Psychopathic (4 or 5) Callousness Aggression Manipulativeness Hostility Deceitfulness Narcissism Irresponsibility Recklessness Impulsivity Borderline Borderline (4 or 5) Emotional lability Self-harm Separation insecurity…
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Article from the BBC about BPD and other PDs
Article from the BBC about personality disorders. Struggling with personality disorder Post categories: The way we behave Mark Easton | 12:30 UK time, Thursday, 26 November 2009 We like to see the world in black and white: a landscape of villains and victims; good and evil; right and wrong. These labels allow us to make easy moral judgements about others, to apportion blame and sympathy. It seems to be an involuntary human response. Who has suffered? Who is at fault? Indeed, many of the stories in today’s news are about the process of allocation: the Iraq War Inquiry; reports of crimes and the courts; response to the credit crunch. We…
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Marsha Linehan outspoken of her own BPD?
I recently stumbled on an interview with WYNC (public radio in NYC) with Jayson Blair and his new employer Dr. Michael Oberschneider. Blair was the NY Times reporter who admittedly fabricated stories in 2003. In the interview, Dr. Oberschneider says that Marsha Linehan: “…has been outspoken about her own Borderline Personality Disorder.” I have never heard or read that Dr. Linehan has said she has BPD. Does anyone know of this reference and what “outspoken” means? Here is the interview: Jayson Blair Interview No related posts.
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People with Borderline Personality Disorder over diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder
Article from Science Daily about over-diagnosis of bipolar disorder: If Bipolar Disorder Is Over-diagnosed, What Are The Actual Diagnoses? ScienceDaily (July 29, 2009) — A year ago, a study by Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University researchers reported that fewer than half the patients previously diagnosed with bipolar disorder received an actual diagnosis of bipolar disorder after using a comprehensive, psychiatric diagnostic interview tool –the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID). In this follow-up study, the researchers have determined the actual diagnoses of those patients. Their study is published in the July 28 ahead of print online edition of The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. Under the direction of lead author…