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Risky brain, safe brain: MIT charts neural pathways involved in decision-making
The findings could help researchers discover new ways to treat psychiatric disorders that feature impaired decision-making, such as depression, schizophrenia, and borderline personality disorder. Risky brain, safe brain: MIT charts neural pathways involved in decision-making Every decision we take is influenced to some extent by emotion, and choices that offer both negative and positive elements – such as picking a higher paying but hazardous job or a safer but less profitable one – evoke them the most, particularly anxiety. Researchers at MIT have now identified a neural circuit that they believe underpins decision-making in situations such as this, and have started looking into mice’s brains to better understand the biological…
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Borderline Personality Disorder: The Symptoms, Signs, And What It’s Really Like To Have It
Demanding, capricious and intense in relationships, you will be in turn exhilarated and exhausted if you have a partner with borderline. Borderline Personality Disorder: The Symptoms, Signs, And What It’s Really Like To Have It Posted: 29/05/2015 14:48 BST Updated: 02/06/2015 08:59 BST Lucy Sherriff Borderline personality disorder (BPD) does not mean crazy. It’s also not solely reserved for psychopathic serial killers in murder dramas. It’s a mental health condition which around one in every 150 in the UK people live with – whether they realise it or not. “When people say ‘you’ve got a split personality’, borderline personality disorder is what they really mean, not the common misconception of…
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Is it a mood disorder or Borderline Personality Disorder
Here is some insight on moods vs emotions from When Hope is Not Enough: Since I believe that the foundation for BPD is emotional dysregulation, most of the day-to-day conflicts, issues, rages and manipulative behavior spring from this feature of BPD. Emotional dysregulation is the engine that drives the train of BPD. Shame and impulsiveness also contribute no doubt (maybe as fuel and throttle respectively), but the engine itself is emotional dysregulation. In that way, BPD is much like a traditional mood disorder, such as bipolar disorder. The main feature that separates BPD from bipolar disorder is the length and frequency of the “mood” swings. Emotions are more fast-acting than…
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Fight Stigma: Facts about Borderline Personality Disorder
Myths about BPD abound. Part of fighting the stigma is to know the facts. Bon: From one of my favorite sources – Karen Hall’s Emotionally Sensitive Person blog. Fight Stigma: Facts about Borderline Personality Disorder By Karyn Hall, PhD May is Borderline Personality Awareness Month. To fight the stigma that is so difficult for individuals with mental illness and particularly for individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD), I encourage you to learn more about the disorder. Stigma can be devastating to individuals who are already struggling with intensely painful emotions and a fear of not belonging or fitting in. Stigma also can stop individuals from getting the help that is…
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Things You Only Know: If you have a borderline personality disorder
My emotional state can change very quickly, pushing me from euphoric happiness to crushing despair within the space of a few hours. Things You Only Know: If you have a borderline personality disorder THE DEBRIEF: YOU’LL EXPERIENCE EXTREME EMOTIONS AND MAY GO THROUGH PERIODS WHERE YOU TOTALLY LOSE TOUCH WITH REALITY… I’m lying in a hospital bed and I have little memory of how I got there. I sit up and suddenly realise that I have my second year university exams in a matter of weeks. The panic hits me. I have to revise. I have to do well. What am I doing here? I remember a blur of booze…
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Brain Surgery To Remove Amygdala Leads To Woman’s ‘Hyper Empathy’
“Emotional empathy refers to feeling another person’s emotion,” Richard-Mornas said. “While cognitive empathy is the ability to adopt the other person’s point of view, or ‘put oneself in his/her shoes,’ without necessarily experiencing any emotion.” Brain Surgery To Remove Amygdala Leads To Woman’s ‘Hyper Empathy’ By Bahar Gholipour, Staff Writer In a strange case, a woman developed “hyper empathy” after having a part of her brain called the amygdala removed in an effort to treat her severe epilepsy, according to a report of her case. Empathy is the ability to recognize another person’s emotions. The case was especially unusual because the amygdala is involved in recognizing emotions, and removing it…