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Borderlines vs. Psychopaths
Just a note or two on BPD vs psychopathy… Firstly, when shown the Ekman faces (just google it if you don’t know what those are), borderlines are likely to view neutral faces as angry and angry faces as extremely threatening. Borderlines think “that person is angry *at me*”. With fear faces, borderlines actually express empathy, even if Baron-Cohen says they don’t. I disagree with him in this regard. I believe the lack of empathy in borderlines occurs during a “failure to mentalize” and is not a general BPD trait. Psychopath’s brains only activate on fear faces. Disturbingly, they get “excited” about fear in others (i.e. the pleasure centers of the…
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Understanding Major Depression With Borderline Personality Disorder?
The NIAAA study begins to spread out and spur on new views of the findings regarding BPD. Here is a study about Major Depressive Disorder and BPD. Can Epidemiology Translate Into Understanding Major Depression With Borderline Personality Disorder? Myrna M. Weissman, Ph.D. Epidemiologic surveys have mapped the terrain of psychiatric disorders. Personality disorders have bedeviled the clinician’s practice. Rarely have these two been rearranged in a meaningful clinical dialogue. Using the largest psychiatric epidemiologic survey ever, the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcoholism and Related Conditions, and among the few to venture into axis II disorders, Skodol et al. (1), in this issue of the Journal, give a community-based national view…
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Article about bipolar depression that mentions BPD
Here is an article about bipolar depression that mentions BPD. The mention says: Professor Richard Morriss, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Nottingham, said: ‘In people with depression who score highly on hypomania questionnaires there is a high prevalence of people with impulse control problems such as borderline personality disorder and intermittent explosive disorder who may superficially look like people with bipolar disorder.’ … which in combination with this finding: People with Borderline Personality Disorder over diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder …could have some interesting ramifications for the medical community. The text of the article: Bipolar depression unrecognised in primary care 03 Mar 11 By Christian Duffin Up to a…
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NY Times: Getting Mental Health Care for Others
An article from the NY Times about getting mental health care for others: Getting Someone to Psychiatric Treatment Can Be Difficult and Inconclusive By A. G. SULZBERGER and BENEDICT CAREY TUCSON —What are you supposed to do with someone like Jared L. Loughner? That question is as difficult to answer today as it was in the years and months and days leading up to the shooting here that left 6 dead and 13 wounded. Millions of Americans have wondered about a troubled loved one, friend or co-worker, fearing not so much an act of violence, but — far more likely — self-inflicted harm, landing in the streets, in jail or on suicide…
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NY Times notes NPD is gone in the DSM V
An article from the NY Times: November 29, 2010 A Fate That Narcissists Will Hate: Being Ignored By CHARLES ZANOR Narcissists, much to the surprise of many experts, are in the process of becoming an endangered species. Not that they face imminent extinction — it’s a fate much worse than that. They will still be around, but they will be ignored. The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (due out in 2013, and known as DSM-5) has eliminated five of the 10 personality disorders that are listed in the current edition. Narcissistic personality disorder is the most well-known of the five, and its absence has…
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British Personality Survey shows 77% show signs of PD
Only 23% of the British Population is not personality disordered? Personality pathology recorded by severity: national survey Min Yang, MD, MPH Division of Psychiatry, School of Community Health Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham Jeremy Coid, MD, FRCPsych Queen Mary College, London, Forensic Psychiatry Research Unit, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London Peter Tyrer, MD Centre for Mental Health, Imperial College, London, UK Correspondence: Correspondence: Professor Peter Tyrer, Centre for Mental Health, Imperial College, St Dunstan’s Road, London W6 8RP, UK. Email: p.tyrer@imperial.ac.uk Declaration of interest P.T. is the Chair of the World Psychiatric Association Section on Personality Disorders and the Chair of the World Health Organization Personality Disorder Working Group for the…