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Latimer: Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a very disruptive condition and one of the most difficult to deal with in a medical setting. Latimer: Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder By Kelowna Capital News Published: November 11, 2013 04:00 PM Updated: November 11, 2013 04:64 PM Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a very disruptive condition and one of the most difficult to deal with in a medical setting. Individuals with this condition typically have a long history of intense, unstable relationships and an extreme fear of being abandoned by people. They almost always have a poor sense of identity that is highly influenced by surroundings and relationships. Other key symptoms in BPD include…
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Bipolar disorder ‘distinct’ from borderline personality disorder
The MDD-BPD patients also had more personality disorders than the bipolar patients (56.7 vs 38.5%) and had more severe depressive symptoms, including higher scores for anger, anxiety, paranoid ideation, and somatization. MDD-BPD patients had poorer social functioning than patients with bipolar II depression, and had made more suicide attempts. Bipolar disorder ‘distinct’ from borderline personality disorder (link) By Eleanor McDermid, Senior medwireNews Reporter 08 October 2013 J Clin Psychiatry 2013; 74: 880–886 medwireNews: Researchers say that there are clear clinical differences between depressed patients with bipolar II disorder and those with borderline personality disorder, which supports the two being treated as distinct conditions. The 62 bipolar II disorder patients in…
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An Opioid Deficit in Borderline Personality Disorder: Self-Cutting, Substance Abuse, and Social Dysfunction
Excerpt: How might abnormal opioid activity help to explain the symptoms and etiology of borderline personality disorder? For decades, researchers have theorized that at least one behavior common in borderline personality disorder—self-cutting—relates to abnormalities in opioid activity. It has long been noted that patients with borderline personality disorder report that they engage in self-cutting not as a suicidal act but, rather, as a means to relieve psychic pain. Many patients report that they do not feel physical pain at the moment when they cut themselves; instead, cutting engenders feelings of relief or well-being. One view of cutting in borderline personality disorder is that it represents a method of endogenous opioid…
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Study: Borderline Personality Patients up to 6 times more likely to abuse prescription drugs
The abuse of prescription medications: borderline personality patients in psychiatric versus non-psychiatric settings. Sansone RA, Wiederman MW. Source Wright State University and Kettering Medical Center, Ohio, USA. Abstract OBJECTIVE: In this study, the prevalence of prescription substance abuse among those with borderline personality symptomatology was examined in a large cohort of respondents who participated in one of 13 prior research projects. METHOD: The entire cohort (N = 1039) was divided into 3 subsamples: a psychiatric sample (n = 440), a predominantly primary care sample (n = 599), and an internal medicine sample (n = 332; i.e., a well-defined subset of the predominantly primary care sample that consisted of only internal…
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Psychosomatics study shows prevalence of nightmares disorder in psychiatric patients
A study published in the current issue of psychotherapy and psychosomatics provides data concerned with the prevalence of nightmares disorder in psychiatric patients. Studies concerning prevalence of nightmares in psychiatric populations that did specify psychopathology have reported on subsamples such as: PTSD 50-70% , depression 17.5%, insomnia 18.3%, schizophrenia 16.7% , and borderline personality disorder 49%. These studies suggest a high prevalence of nightmares in a psychiatric population, regardless of the primary diagnosis. However, no study reported prevalence rates of nightmares across all psychiatric disorders. In this study, Authors assessed all consecutive patients admitted to a specialist mental health care with nightmare subscale of the SLEEP-50 , a questionnaire designed…
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Assessing the severity of borderline personality disorder
The identification of a reliable and valid severity index for borderline personality disorder has vexed researchers for decades. A simple, clinically intuitive severity index for borderline personality disorder with predictive validity has now been identified. This index could usefully guide treatment planning, but other contextual factors should also determine the need for specialist treatment. Read the Study No related posts.