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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…
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Study on the Lethality of Suicide and Borderline Personality Disorder
Recurrent suicidal behaviors in patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) are often considered communicative gestures; however, 10% complete suicide. This study seeks to identify risk factors for suicide within a BPD sample by comparing patients with High- and Low Lethality attempts. BPD attempters (n = 113) were assessed on demographic, diagnostic, and personality variables: clinical symptoms, suicidal behaviors; childhood, family, and treatment histories; social adjustment; and recent life events. Forty-four High-Lethality attempters, defined by a score of 4 or more on Beck’s Medical Lethality Scale, were compared to 69 Low-Lethality attempters. Discriminating variables were entered in a multivariate logistic regression model to define predictors of High-Lethality status. High-Lethality attempters were…
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Major Depressive Disorder and BPD
A little while ago, I posted an study about the over-lap between Major Depressive Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder. The last sentence of this study was “In the meantime, the clinician treating major depressive disorder would be wise to assess for borderline personality disorder, even as currently defined.” That was because the study found a large correlation between the two disorders. Today, I was reviewing an article by Marsha Linehan called “Two-Year Randomized Controlled Trialand Follow-up of Dialectical Behavior Therapyvs Therapy by Experts for Suicidal Behaviorsand Borderline Personality Disorder” which I had planned to write something up about. I’ll have to do that later, but the reason these thoughts of MDD and BPD…
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Jessica Cahill, who attempted suicide a month ago, describes her anguish
Jessica Cahill tried to kill herself a month ago. She is 28 and has lived with severe anxiety and deep depression since she was 12. Cahill has been hospitalized nearly 30 times in her short life. One psychiatrist recently said she has borderline personality disorder. Mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety disorders are complex and difficult to explain to those who haven’t lived through them. Cahill described her afflictions eloquently and with clarity over several hours of interviews. She invites the Star’s readers inside her mind with the hope that it helps at least one person: I want to talk about suicide because no one talks about it. Maybe…
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Personality Type Might Help Identify Teens at Suicide Risk
Q-factor analysis of adolescents who have attempted suicide may shed light on personality subtypes of attempters. Personality Type Might Help Identify Teens at Suicide Risk Leslie Sinclair Q-factor analysis of adolescents who have attempted suicide may shed light on personality subtypes of attempters. Studies of adolescents who have attempted suicide usually focus on identifying how they differ from their nonsuicidal peers. Researchers at Emory University, however, have begun to identify how adolescents who attempt suicide differ from one another. Their work adds to previous studies that have reported personality subtypes within samples of adult suicide attempters and completers. “Overall, assessing adolescents’ risk of suicide attempt should include not only a…
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Tragic Vikki’s mum can’t forget court recording of girl’s last call
PROUD mum Pamela Bowmaker final memory is a haunting one. On a night in September 2008, Vikki McGovern made a desperate call to NHS 24, screaming that she was going to kill herself. She repeated the words over and over again until a fire alarm went off in the NHS building. The worker on the other end of the line gave Vikki a telephone number and said she could phone again in ten minutes, before ending the call. Tragic Vikki’s mum can’t forget court recording of girl’s last call Published on Monday 28 November 2011 07:13 PROUD mum Pamela Bowmaker remembers how her daughter loved singing Spice Girls songs on her…