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Student draws on pain to help children
“It got so bad that it aggravated the illness to the point where I had a mental breakdown in class,” he said. Two years ago, he was diagnosed with an accompanying borderline personality disorder. Student draws on pain to help children Saturday, Mar 28, 2015 The Straits Times By Calvin Yang Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP) student Chia Xun An, 23, was diagnosed with clinical depression when he was just 10. He had low moods, erratic behaviour and struggled to get out of bed. “I used to take five hours to get out of bed and go to school. School started at 7.30am, but I usually reached (school) around lunchtime,” said…
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3 Low- or No-Cost Resources to Help Improve Your Mental Health
Support groups provide an opportunity for you to learn and heal from other members’ experiences and for them to learn from yours as well. 3 Low- or No-Cost Resources to Help Improve Your Mental Health Dr. Matt Goldenberg D.O. Many people who struggle with stress, mental illness or sub-optimal mental health lack the time and finances to engage in weekly therapy or ongoing medication management. Other individuals may be interested in trying alternatives prior to starting medications but lack knowledge of available resources. Even those with the best medical insurance, and the good fortune of unlimited finances can find it difficult to access quality mental health treatment when it is…
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Free Kindle Version of Beyond Boundaries
The Free Kindle Promotion for Beyond Boundaries is now complete… 99 of you took advantage of this free offer. I hope that the material is helpful to each of you. If you wish to get more detailed instructions about interacting with your loved one with BPD, try reading When Hope is Not Enough: a how-to guide for living with and loving someone with Borderline Personality Disorder, also available on the Kindle. No related posts.
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20 Rules for Understanding #BPD
The “most vivid autobiographical memories tend to be of emotional events.” Based on experience with people with BPD, I have come to notice that these emotional memories become linked within one’s mind and outside of time. In other words, a distance of many years does not diminish the linkage between an emotional-laden memory and an event currently taking place. A person with BPD will link long ago negative emotional experiences with current events because it “feels the same.” In that way, the person with BPD will sometimes act on these emotional memories in a way that is inappropriate for the current situation. No related posts.
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Overactive Midbrain and Stress Tolerance
From Nora Gedgaudas’s latest book “Rethinking Fatigue”: CHRONIC MIDBRAIN OVERACTIVATION When the reticular activating system is stimulated, it fires off in different directions, and at times particularly strong emotional reactions to events can become stuck in a self-perpetuating feedback loop. In other words, particularly pronounced reactions to traumatic or stressful events can cause the brain to become hardwired for stress. This can also lead to long-term anxiety-related issues. The overactivation of this area of the brain, say by a particularly upsetting, traumatizing event, can lead to a chronically exaggerated stress response. A person may become hypervigilant and have an exaggerated startle response or possibly other symptoms similar to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).…
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Mother chronicles daughter’s tragic struggle with Borderline Personality Disorder
Not long after she drew the gruesome accident picture at the age of nine, Colleen told her parents that she wanted to die. Many suicide attempts followed. Calgary mother chronicles daughter’s tragic struggle with Borderline Personality Disorder BY ERIC VOLMERS, CALGARY HERALD OCTOBER 3, 2014 When Colleen Porter was nine years old, her parents were summoned to school because of a picture she had drawn with crayons. Students had been asked to create something that pleased them, an exercise that usually produced predictable and mundane results. Not for Colleen. “It was a drawing of a car accident,” says Fran L. Porter, Colleen’s mother and author of the book When the…