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Self injury is not for seeking attention
“There is a strong relationship between depression and high-risk behaviors,” says Pamela Cantor, PhD. Self injury is not for seeking attention I have a fifteen year old daughter. She is a bright student from all these years. She started cutting her wrist, thighs and other body parts since a year. From childhood, she was a non obedient kid, but from last few months it has been increasing. It has come to my knowledge that she is being bullied and teased at school. I tried talking to school management but she is still unhappy. She has drastic mood swings which are resulting in hurting herself. I believe that she is doing…
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy Interventions Helpful In Preventing Suicide Attempts
Findings revealed that all three of the treatments made a significant difference in these women’s lives, reducing the severity of intentional self-injury, the number of suicide attempts and overall reason for living. Dialectical Behavior Therapy Interventions Helpful In Preventing Suicide Attempts Kathleen Lees First Posted: Mar 25, 2015 06:15 PM EDT New findings published in JAMA Psychiatry have shown that a variety of dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) interventions have be found helpful in preventing suicide attempts and nonsuicidal self-injury acts when reviewed in a randomized clinical trial of women who were dealing with a borderline personality disorder (BPD). Women who are suffering with BPD oftentimes have a heightened fear of…
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Self-injury, or cutting, needs understanding
Though it seems counterintuitive, self-injury is often done with the intention of providing relief to the person injuring himself. Self-injury, or cutting, needs understanding By Traci Lowenthal POSTED: 02/28/15, 8:18 PM PST What do you think of when you read the phrase “self-injury”? For some, this might be a completely new term, as the more commonly used word for it is “cutting.” Today is Self-Injury Awareness Day. It’s incredibly important to understand what self-injury is and what it is not, and to understand why people injure themselves, as well as what can be done about it. WHAT IS SELF-INJURY? Self-injurious behaviors are intentional behaviors that result in the damage of…
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Interesting Study on Self-Injury and Borderline Personality Disorder
Among the BPD factors, emotion dysregulation and disturbed relatedness were both associated with non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) history, but only disturbed relatedness was associated with NSSI frequency. The relationship between non-suicidal self-injury and borderline personality disorder symptoms in a college sample Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a major concern in both clinical and non-clinical populations. It has been approximated that 65-80% of individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) engage in some form of NSSI.Despite such high co-morbidity, much still remains unknown about the relationship between NSSI and BPD symptomatology. The goal of the current study was to identify individual BPD symptoms and higher order BPD factors that increase one’s vulnerability of NSSI engagement…
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Learning that there is a better way than self-harm
A new programme is being rolled out across the country to teach people who are severely suicidal and who repeatedly self-harm that there is a less destructive way to manage their emotional pain. Those who repeatedly self- harm are often diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD), which is characterised by difficulties in managing emotions, in suicidality and continual self-harm. Dr Marsha Linehan, a psychologist at the University of Washington, has led a crusade to find an effective treatment approach for BPD and has been credited internationally with developing the most effective treatment to date – dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT). Linehan spent a week in Ireland at the start of the year…
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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…