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How it Feels to Live With Borderline Personality Disorder
People often discuss BPD by describing an “emptiness.” For me it’s more an oscillation between the impossibly empty and the impossibly full. How it Feels to Live With Borderline Personality Disorder By Patrick Marlborough It’s Mental Health Week across Australia. Each state starts and ends the special week at different times, but today—Monday—there’s a lot of overlap. So I want to explain why this week should feel like an important call-to-arms, and tell you what it’s like to live with a common—and little understood—mental illnesses: borderline personality disorder, or BPD. Between one and two percent of Australians suffer from BPD. Women are up to three times more likely to have…
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Refusing to be defined by borderline personality disorder
The condition goes hand in hand with depression and anxiety. East Maitland’s Victoria Campbell refuses to be defined by borderline personality disorder by Sage Swinton For Victoria Campbell, the past two years have been an emotional rollercoaster. The East Maitland woman has faced a daily battle against borderline personality disorder (BPD) since her diagnosis in 2014. She has struggled to manage her emotions, suffered deep depression and displayed extreme reactions that she could not control. “You don’t know whether you’re overreacting,” she said. “You worry about every contact with every person. You think you’re an idiot, you’re a fool.” The condition goes hand in hand with depression and anxiety. “The…
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Healing with paint: How the pioneer of art therapy helped millions of mental health patients
Lisa Buttery, a 25-year-old artist who works at Brighton University, shares Molloy’s experiences. She has been dealing with borderline personality disorder since her teens, and has used art in therapy and as a creative outlet. Healing with paint: How the pioneer of art therapy helped millions of mental health patients Edward Adamson was the first artist to be employed in a UK hospital. Kashmira Gander explores how his studio was an oasis of calm in a harsh twentieth century mental hospital, and how his legacy lives on. Kashmira Gander @kashmiragander Wednesday 7 September 2016 It is the late 1990s and once again Gary Molloy’s severe bipolar disorder has hospitalised him.…
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A Spectrum Approach to Mood Disorders
The author deftly explores the overlapping symptoms of mixed bipolar symptoms, anxiety disorders, borderline personality disorders, ADHD, and major depression. A Spectrum Approach to Mood Disorders September 06, 2016 | Film And Book Reviews, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Major Depressive Disorder, Mood Disorders By Tammas Kelly, MD A Spectrum Approach to Mood Disorders: Not Fully Bipolar but Not Unipolar—Practical Management by James Phelps, MD; New York: WW Norton and Company, 2016 255 pages • $32.00 (hardcover) In A Spectrum Approach to Mood Disorders, Dr Jim Phelps bravely enters territory that academia has largely neglected—the nebulous region between full bipolar disorder and major depression. This is where so many of our patients…
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Cats Again Get a Bad Rap in Toxoplasmosis Coverage
A study linking the disease to a psychiatric disorder marked by aggression didn’t include cats — but you’d never know it from the headlines. Cats Again Get a Bad Rap in Toxoplasmosis Coverage s.e. smith | Apr 20th 2016 Toxoplasmosis is back. A new study led by researchers from the University of Chicago links the disease with Intermittent Explosive Disorder, in which patients experience outbursts of extreme anger. Headlines such as “Could germ from cat poop trigger rage disorder in people?” and “Cats Might Be the Reason Some People Are So Terrible” are circulating, but this is not in fact a study about cats. It’s a study about toxoplasmosis and…
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I’m Drowning Not Waving
I reached crisis point one night last October when I sent pictures to my ex-husband of blood pouring from self-inflicted wounds on my arms demanding to know if he was “happy now”. I’m Drowning Not Waving Alexandra Sheach It’s Depression Awareness Week and I figured it was time to blow this mental health stigma shit high out of the water. I hadn’t known there was an official event this week, I’m so used to seeing memes on social media I meet with a sage nod or wry smile as we all ‘like’ a post telling us it’s nothing to be ashamed of – but we don’t stick our heads above…