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Borderline Personality Disorder: Open Letter to Emergency Department and Hospital Based Staff
Invalidating our feelings is like throwing petrol onto an already fierce raging fire. Bon: I think the same could be said of emotionally dysregulated moments with loved ones… Borderline Personality Disorder: Open Letter to Emergency Department and Hospital Based Staff By SONIA NEALE ~ 4 min read People with a diagnosis of BPD are often accused of manipulation and splitting in psychiatric settings. A quick Google search reveals that manipulation is the action of manipulating someone in a clever or unscrupulous way, the skilful handling, controlling or using of something or someone, to manage or influence skilfully, especially in an unfair manner, to manipulate people’s feelings. I have never felt…
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Managing Suicidality in Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder
In BPD, the most typical suicidal behavior is an overdose of pills, occurring in an interpersonal context. These overdoses usually carry a message—sometimes for a lover and sometimes for a therapist. Patients with BPD also tend to cut their wrists repetitively, and/or carry out other actions to hurt themselves. Managing Suicidality in Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder July 01, 2006 By Joel Paris, MD Suicidality is a defining feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD). It is also the feature that creates the most anxiety among those who treat patients with this disorder. It is rare to find patients with BPD who have never shown any suicidal behavior. As described in…
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Punishing people for mental illness is a return to the Dark Ages
My 22-year old daughter, diagnosed with bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder, has refused treatment for four years. She self-medicates with marijuana, methamphetamine, and alcohol. Occasionally, she gets caught using or possessing drugs and is thrown in a county jail. Punishing people for mental illness is a return to the Dark Ages By Rachel Pruchno POSTED: 01/17/2015 05:00:00 PM MST This week, jury selection will begin in Aurora in the case of James Holmes. Central to the case is whether people with serious mental illness should be treated or punished. Robert and Arlene Holmes acknowledge that some people view their son James as a monster. Certainly the rampage on July…
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The Buddy effect: improving mental health treatment, one pet at a time
Animals, along with the internet, are one of the best additions to a mental health ward. The Buddy effect: improving mental health treatment, one pet at a time Everyone should have a Buddy. When Buddy enters a room, everything automatically lights up. Buddy exudes charisma. Buddy is the life and soul. Buddy makes everything better. No matter the situation, nothing fazes Buddy. I wish I was more like her. Buddy is a Tibetan terrier, and one so unstoppably adorable that I genuinely don’t know how anyone manages to meet her without abducting her. And I’m not even her biggest fan. I’d probably struggle to crack her top 100. Buddy’s owner,…
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The Scarlet Label: Close Encounters with ‘Borderline Personality Disorder’
If so-called ‘borderline personality disorder’ symptoms are really responses to an unpredictable and perhaps unsafe environment then the real shame of it is that we are stigmatizing people that disclose the pain of our human world. We are judging people who have sensitive dispositions and absorb the world around them; people who are essentially struggling with basic life issues. And as a system – the mental health system – that sort of prides itself on exploring human behavior without judgment, this is a failure — not on our client’s part, but on the part of professionals and systems that are supposed to be caring for them. The Scarlet Label: Close…
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Motive-oriented therapeutic relationship (MOTR) – A new treatment for borderline personality disorder
Motive-oriented therapeutic relationship (MOTR) was postulated to be a particularly helpful therapeutic ingredient in the early treatment phase of patients with personality disorders, in particular with borderline personality disorder (BPD). A new treatment for borderline personality disorder A group of Swiss investigators reports on a new type of psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. Motive-oriented therapeutic relationship (MOTR) was postulated to be a particularly helpful therapeutic ingredient in the early treatment phase of patients with personality disorders, in particular with borderline personality disorder (BPD). This randomized controlled study using an add-on design is the first study to test this assumption in a 10-session…