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5th Anniversary of ATSTP List and Some Support for Non-BPDs
Today is the 5th anniversary of the Anything to Stop the Pain support list. After over 50,000 messages and 600+ members, it is still going strong. The ATSTP list is offered for free to non-BPDs. In honor of this momentous occasion, I will clip a response from me to a list member. Any personal details have been removed. The only thing blog readers need to know is that this man’s wife has been diagnosed with BPD and is asking him for a divorce. We also have a couple of recovered borderlines on this list and they are a valuable resource (as is noted here): I believe that there is no…
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CNN Reports Internet Encouraging Self-harm
A report from CNN about self-harm/self-injury in teens: Websites may encourage self-injury in teens, young adults Young adults and teens may believe that hurting themselves is normal and acceptable after watching videos and other media on Web-sharing sites like YouTube, new research indicates. The findings, published in the journal Pediatrics, warn professionals and parents to be aware of the availability and dangers of such material for at-risk teens and young adults. Deliberate self-injury without the intent of committing suicide is called “nonsuicidal self-injury” or NSSI. An estimated 14% to 24% of youth and young adults engage in this destructive behavior, according to the study. NSSI can also include relationship challenges,…
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Holy Moly! An article about the girl who doused her face in acid that actually gets it!
When I saw this article come through the Google news alerts I thought: “Oh no, an article that’s going to say ‘she did it for attention’ because she has BPD and they are attention-seeking.” I was mightily surprised when I read the article and realized that here’s someone that actually knows what she’s talking about. Why would Bethany Storro douse herself in acid? Experts try to explain When news broke Thursday that a Vancouver woman admitted dousing herself with powerful acid, causing severe facial burns, one question reverberated: Why would anyone do such a thing? Friday, a leading researcher in the field of self-harm discounted theories that Bethany Storro, 28,…
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Lindsay Lohan and possible BPD (more detail this time)
Well, it’s been some time since I have written anything about celebrities with possible borderline personality disorder. Personally, I wish some celeb would just come out and admit that they have the disorder and help others by showing that there’s effective evidence-based treatments for BPD. I guess the stigma is too great and they feel that it would hurt their careers. Of course, for some, their behavior is what is hurting their careers. Today, I am turning again to Lindsay Lohan (click here to see all posts about LiLo). Lately I have been receiving a ton of alerts with news stories that contain LiLo’s name and reference BPD. These are…
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Sad story of a young woman with BPD
I stumbled on this sad story of a woman with BPD… Failure of system spirals into family tragedy George and Alice Schellenberg took it as good news when their daughter Laura, just out of high school, coming off a nervous breakdown, was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. Borderline. How bad could that be? Over the next 17 years, the Saanich couple found out. It was hell. Laura began doing things totally out of character — she shoplifted, got angry, shaved her head twice, began cutting herself, then tattooed the lacerations on her arms. On and on. She worked as a hairdresser and had a doting partner, but the internal demons…
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Self Injury Article on CNN
Uh, duh… Of course it makes them feel better. That’s the point. It’s not effective or productive, but it’s about pain management. Some kids hurt themselves to feel better By Theodore Beauchaine, Special to CNN STORY HIGHLIGHTS Theodore Beauchaine says he sees rise in youth self-injury, such as cutting, burning Syndrome crosses culture, class; it’s linked to suicide, yet research funding lags, he says Kids say they self-injure to help deal with negative emotions, he says, but studies are sparse Beauchaine: U.S. must boost funding for study of self-injury Editor’s note: Theodore Beauchaine is the Robert Bolles and Yasuko Endo Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington, where…