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Ask Bon: Why does my loved one with BPD do such dangerous things? (like cutting, drugs, etc.)
People with BPD are in a great deal of emotional pain. Since emotions are immediate and primal, emotional pain is also immediate and primal. As I have said, emotions represent a land-bridge between the body and the mind. Emotional pain manifests itself in both mental and physical ways. If you have ever been depressed or “fraught with grief” over the loss of something or someone important to you, you will know what I am saying in this regard. Depression and grief can be a trying experience for anyone. You feel pain in every area of your body and mind. Sometimes you will just want to retreat to your bedroom and…
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Could this be the first medication for Borderline Personality Disorder?
With a debt of u-opiods and over active u-opiod receptors, could this be the first medication for BPD? I am not a doctor yet when I saw this on twitter I immediately thought of Borderline Personality Disorder: Extended-Release Opioid Gets FDA OK By Emily P. Walker, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today Reviewed by August 26, 2011 Review WASHINGTON — The FDA has approved tapentadol (Nucynta), an extended-release oral opioid, to treat severe chronic pain. According to the reports of this on NeuropathyReliefGuide.com, the agency first approved the drug for relief of moderate to severe acute pain in 2008. Friday’s approval is for an extended-release pill that chronic pain patients can take twice…
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Understanding Emotional Agony Through David Foster Wallace’s Eyes
Here is a quote from Infinite Jest about “depression” or the “Great White Shark of Pain”. I think it helps illustrate the difference between the chronically depressed and those in emotional agony. I see that people with borderline personality disorder are more likely to be in the second category. I have bolded some key points here. The “suicide contract” is exactly the same as a “behavior contract”. With a person in this much pain, it ain’t gonna work. That dead-eyed anhedonia is but a remora on the ventral flank of the true predator, the Great White Shark of pain. Authorities term this depression clinical depression or involuntary depression or unipolar dysphoria. Instead…
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Missouri swimmer’s suicide might draw attention to disorder
Article about a University of Missouri swimmer who committed suicide. She had BPD. Sad, sad. Missouri swimmer’s suicide might draw attention to disorder By DAVID BRIGGS Sunday, July 3, 2011 Sasha Menu Courey loved college life at Missouri. She was a swimmer with Olympic ambitions but rarely missed a chance to set free a laugh so booming that it seemed to rattle the ceiling of teammates a floor below at Johnston Hall. The sophomore greeted friends — everybody counted as one — as if they were just the person she was hoping to see. “It was always, ‘Heyyy!’ ” said MU swimmer Caitlin Connor, who met Menu Courey before a…
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I-AM-MAD Skill makes it to Partners in Wellness Blog
In the post “When Your Partner Says They Are In Pain, Validate” Kate Theda of the “Partners in Wellness” blog specifically used my I-AM-MAD communication skill to teach her readers about validation. Here is the intro for the log post: After a period of dealing with a partner’s mental illness, compassion fatigue can set in. Yes, you still love your partner. Yes, you still care that they are not feeling well. But it can become difficult to empathize after a while, and you begin to wonder, “When is this going to end?” While I can’t give you an answer on when–or if–the illness will abate, what I can tell you…
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Confirmation of IAAHF
A few days ago, I saw some confirmation of “it’s all about his/her feelings” come across the ATSTP Email Support List. A woman who has been a member for a while posted this about her husband with BPD: When I asked my H why he thinks he would never fall back on his old ‘opiate’ (other women) he said this: “because I realized it only made me feel sh*ttier about myself and fall into a dark and self-loathing place, feeling that way is the ugliest experience I’ve ever had – and I felt that way for too long.” I didn’t like that answer at first. I wanted to hear “because it was…