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    Treatments; Borderline Personality Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder is amongst the hardest personality disorders to treat. BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder) continues to aggravate‚ baffle‚ and reward doctors and psychologists. Psychotherapies differ considerably; however‚ there are two major paths to treatment with this disorder: insight-oriented therapy or stabilizing interventions. Each pathway is characterized by particular techniques and interventions‚ but each is primarily defined

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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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    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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    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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    She took a strong‚ emotional interest in him when she first saw him at the book launch. “Extreme reactions—including panic‚ depression‚ rage‚ or frantic actions—to abandonment‚ whether real or perceived” (Borderline Personality Disorder‚ n.d.)‚ is one of the signs of BPD. Alex showed this symptom when after Dan tried to leave her‚ she showed frantic actions of suicidal tendencies along with destruction of property. Also‚ other signs are: Impulsive and often dangerous

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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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    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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    In Fatal Attraction‚ Dan Gallagher is a New York attorney residing in Manhattan with his family when he meets Alex Forrest‚ an editor for a publishing company he does legal work for‚ at a Japanese business event. While his wife‚ Beth‚ and daughter‚ Ellen‚ are out of town for the weekend visiting family and looking at a potential house‚ Dan has an affair with Alex. Although he believed it was understood to be a simple one-time occurrence‚ she becomes emotionally and physically dependent for him. Once

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    Cigarettes Caffeine: Coffee‚ Soda ABUSE HISTORY Sexual: None reported Physical: Pt reports physical abuse by mother Emotional: Pt reports emotional abuse by mother and father Rape Trauma: None reported Domestic Violence: None reported EATING DISORDERS Anorexia Nervosa: Have you ever deliberately lost so much weight on a diet that people started to seriously worry about your health? Bulimia nervosa: Did you ever have a problem with binge eating‚ when you would eat so much food so fast that it

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