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I’m going to jump – Suicide Prevention and influencing factors
Many suicide attempts are preceded by a history of self-harm, in which there is deliberate injury that a person inflicts on his or her body. This does not mean that the person who self-harms wants to commit suicide, but is an effort by the person to cope with intense emotions. I’m gonna jump (link) THE DOCTOR SAYS By Dr MILTON LUM The are several factors that increase the risk of a person commiting sucide. EVERYONE’S life has its ups and downs, with feelings and emotions accompanying many of these situations. Most people adapt and cope with the downs. However, there are some who are so overcome with these emotions that…
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Out of the darkness, Daughter Raises Awareness of BPD and suicide
Out of the darkness Young student raising awareness by Kevin Mertz Published: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 8:21 AM CDT MILTON — Seven-year-old Kiflyn Hockenbrock sat quietly by her mother Dawn Hockenbrock’s side, grinning from ear-to-ear, as Dawn spoke on the pride she has for her daughter, who has launched a fundraising effort to support a worthwhile cause. Kiflyn, a second-grade student at Baugher Elementary School, will be participating in the Out of the Darkness Community Walk, to benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Sunday, Oct. 16, at Lycoming College in Williamsport. She will be joined at the walk by a team of friends and family. To raise funds for…
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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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BPD: What’s the Cost?
In a recent article/review of Borderline Personality Disorder treatment options and management methodologies, the author quotes the Dr. John Gunderson in the New England Journal of Medicine May 26 issue: “…BPD is present in about 6% of primary care patients and persons in community-based samples and in 15 to 20% of patients in psychiatric hospitals and outpatient clinics,” writes John G. Gunderson, MD, from the Psychosocial and Personality Research Program, McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. “Patients with BPD usually enter treatment facilities after suicide attempts or after episodes of deliberate self-injury. Such episodes result in an average hospital stay of 6.3 days per year and nearly 1 emergency room visit…
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Polls and Ineffective Borderline Behavior
I’ve had conversations with several BPD “experts” about borderline behavior. There seems to be an assumption that many people with BPD are “silent” or “high-functioning” and do not engage in dangerous and/or ineffective behavior often attributed to the “typical” borderline. In my group recently, a non-BPD was questioning his own “sanity” (I put it in quotes because I don’t believe that people with BPD are insane) and speculating that he was the one with BPD. One of our longer-time posters replied: If you’re not throwing full-blown temper tantrums, freaking out because EVERYONE is out to get you, threatening to hurt or kill yourself, running away from those who love you…