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    In order to be diagnosed with borderline personality disorder‚ one must also show pathological personality traits – negative affectivity and disinhibition. Negative affectivity is characterized by four traits: emotional liability‚ anxiousness‚ separation insecurity‚ and depressivity. Emotional liability involves unstable emotions‚ frequent mood changes‚ and emotions that are easily aroused‚ intense‚ and/or out of proportion to the circumstances and events. Anxiousness is an intense feeling of nervousness

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    Personality Personality is defined as distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking‚ feeling‚ and acting It is the total integration of physical‚ intellectual‚ emotional‚ social and character make up of the individual which is expressed in terms of behavior‚ experiences‚ manners‚ attitudes‚ values‚ beliefs‚ interests‚ habits‚ sentiments and traits Types of personalityPersonality type means classification of people acc to bodily and behavioral tendencies.  Modern classification- three

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    orphanage or a foster home. They take those troubling thoughts and basically take it out on people‚ or just do it for fun. They most likely have a mental illness‚ the most common mental illnesses in serial killers is Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) and/or Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). APD is when they show acts of lying or they show that they don’t care about the safety of others. BPD is when the person can have mood swings‚ impulsive behavior‚ and severe problems with self-worth (Psychology

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    Abraham Maslow Case Study 18 Maslov’s hierarchy of the five innate needs describe the factors that activate and direct human behavior. They are the physiological‚ safety‚ love and belongingness‚ esteem‚ and self-actualization needs. According to Maslov‚ these needs are instinctoid‚ or hereditary‚ but can be affected or overcome by learning‚ social expectations‚ and fear of disapproval. Therefore‚ these needs are subject to variation from one person to another (Schultz & Schultz‚ 2012). 1) Before

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    I have a strong urge to explain the events over the years which I feel greatly contributed to the start of my still undiagnosed but now obvious journey into both types of Borderline Personality Disorder described in this video. I don’t know what I expect to gain from this but welcome any comments on my story that anyone has. I literally began the spiral into the 1st type of outward acting BPD probably I would say at 13 after my dad got a job in another town and we moved there two months into grade

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    Girl Interrupted is a film that chronicles the experiences of a girl named Susanna that suffers from borderline personality disorder. In the film‚ Susanna is admitted to a mental institution where she meets Lisa Rowe‚ a permanent patient with antisocial personality disorder. Antisocial personality disorder is a personality disorder characterized by smooth social skills and a lack of guilt about violating social rules and laws and taking advantage of others. Throughout the following paragraphs‚ I

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    Dialectical Behavior Therapy in Borderline Personality Disorder People with borderline personality disorder can be challenging to treat‚ because of the nature of the disorder. Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) can be defined as a mental health condition in which a person has long-term patterns of unstable or turbulent emotions (US National Library of Medicine‚ 2013). They are often difficult to keep in therapy‚ frequently fail to respond to therapeutic efforts and make considerable demands

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    Borderline Personality Disorder Mental Health Treatment Although psychiatric hospitalization may often be used to address the suicidal and other safety crises of individuals with BPD‚ it is unclear how beneficial that intervention is. In contrast‚ partial hospitalization has shown some promise as an intervention for individuals with BPD who are not in imminent danger of mortally harming themselves or others. Partial hospitalization involves the sufferer receiving intensive mental health treatment

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    very irrational impulsive‚ and have abandonment issues. Amy felt abandoned when her husband grew distant from her. Amy felt empty and rationalized that her husband needed to pay for his wrong doings. Amy went to extreme measures to stage a murder case in order to get revenge on her cheating husband and she did not care who got hurt during the process. Amy harmed herself with objects to make her husband seem abusive. Amy violated herself with objects to stage rapes. She also murdered her friend with

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    him dig in at least a bit‚ was a difficult call- and an age-old question. This is especially true with borderline cases. This is when the “sound” discretion of the teacher comes in‚ the plus and the minuses‚ playing around with the numbers. This is law school. Should we still play with the numbers or just stick with it? Would it be better to pass all the students who are in the borderline cases to give them the chance to catch up later

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