An Equifinality Model of Borderline Personality Disorder Joseph Santoro, Ph.D., Michael Tisbe, M.D., Michael Katsarakes Supervised Lifestyles Behavioral Health Systems Borderline personality disorder (BPD) affects as many as six million Americans. It accounts for about 25% of all psychiatric hospitalizations. As many as thirteen percent of males and seven percent of females commit suicide (Stone, 1990). Approximately, 69% of people with BPD are also substance abusers (Miller et ...

Do you live your life in extremes? Do you indulge to reckless excess, bingeing on food, sex, drugs, alcohol, or money? Do you stay in debt from gambling or from running your credit cards to the limit with impulsive purchases of clothes, jewelry or high-tech "toys"? Do you cling desperately to relationships, especially those that are abusive, exploitive, or volatile? Are you addicted to the thrill of living on the edge, taking risks that could, in an instant, shatter y ...

BehaveNet® Clinical Capsule™: DSM-IV & DSM-IV-TR: Borderline Personality Disorder Individuals with this Cluster B Personality Disorder behave impulsively and their relationships, self-image, and emotions are unstable. Diagnostic criteria for 301.83 Borderline Personality Disorder (cautionary statement) A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of context ...

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(English is not my mother tongue, sorry for any errors) Erik's Borderline page. Recently awarded the 'Lightspan's StudyWeb' admission. I was born once, it was 1963. I can't remember where the road first turned left and I went on straight ahead. But I've been a borderliner for a very long time. Now looking back maybe from seven or eight years onward. I did not have words for my feelings then, deeds more so. More about that later. Now the words are there and sometimes the old feelin ...

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The Boston Phoenix September 25 - October 2, 1997 Dancing on the Borderline Often misdiagnosed, mistreated, or ignored, borderline personality disorder has emerged as one of the most troubling -- and most common -- challenges in psychiatry. by Alicia Potter "I'm better off dead than alone." So Sholeh [*patient's names in this article have been changed] thought when she shoved her girlfriend, Amy, out of the bathroom, locked the door, and slumped to the floor with two bottles of ...

Borderline Personality Disorder BPD is characterized by impulsivity & by instability in mood, self-image, & personal relationships. It is fairly common & is diagnosed more often in females than males. Symptoms -Individuals with BPD have several of the following symptoms: 1. Marked mood swings with periods of intense depression, irritability &/or anxiety lasting a few hours to a few days. 2. Inappropriate, intense, or uncontrolled anger. 3. Impulsiveness in spending, sex, substance use, sho ...

Search:The WebAngelfire Free Online Golf Share This Page Report Abuse Edit your Site Browse Sites « Previous | Top 100 | Next » BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER Copyright 2002 John M Rathbun MD DEFINITION - a pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affect, and marked impulsiveness, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts HISTORY: * this diagnosis has been used over the past 30 years to label patients who ...

home contents psychcorner family matters wellness this & that diet & nutrition heal the world spirituality library links about us submit articles to CrescentLife ask the expert Borderline Personality Disorder A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image and affect, as well as marked impulsivity. People with borderline personality disorder are unstable in several areas, including interpersonal relation ...

Borderline personality disorder Personality disorders Avoiding personality Dependent personality Antisocial personality Borderline personality disorder Origin Both hereditary factors and environmental factors play a role at the origin of a personality disorder. Symptoms People with a borderline personality disorder have problems maintaining a relationship. They often see small problems as huge ones. About 2% of all the people suffer from borderl ...

Search:The WebTripod Mi: III Share This Page Report Abuse Edit your Site Browse Sites « Previous | Top 100 | Next » BPD Characteristics Are you in a relationship with a person with Borderline Personality Disorder? Do you find yourself concealing what you really think or feel because you're afraid of the other person's reaction, and it just doesn't seem worth the horrible fight or hurt feelings that will surely follow? Has this become so automatic that you have a hard ...

Borderline Personality Disorder: To Home Page What Is It, What Causes It? How Can We Treat It? by Joel Paris, M.D. What is Borderline Personality Disorder? Personality disorders affect about 10% of the general population. This group of mental disorders is defined by maladaptive personality characteristics that have a consistent and serious effect on work and interpersonal relationships. DSM-IV defines ten categories of personality disorder. Of these, Borde ...

Search:The WebAngelfire Search Jobs Share This Page Report Abuse Edit your Site Browse Sites « Previous | Top 100 | Next » Borderline Personality Disorder When I started into therapy in 1994 for my multitude of problems (see my personal details page), my first therapist told me after seeing him for a number of years and not getting better that I had Borderline Personality Disorder. I went home and signed on to the internet to get information because I finally had a name f ...

DSM Criteria A Possible New Name for the Borderline Personality Disorder Dr. Heller Discusses Borderline Personality Disorder (Now available in: Spanish, French, German, Italian, & Portuguese) The BPD New Management Concepts: New Management Concepts (for Primary Care Physicians) Update (Jan. 1999) for Previous Primary Care Physician Article Medline Research on the Borderline Personality Disorder Structural Brain abnormalities in those with BPD Example of Dr. Heller's offic ...

Edward S. Hume, M.D., J.D. Self-Management Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder --- A Therapist-Guided Approach by Michael H. Langley, Ph.D. ISBN 0-8261-8300-X This book represents a seminal contribution to the field of mental health. In my opinion, it is indispensable reading for any therapist who ever comes in contact with patients and clients who have borderline personality disorder (BPD) --- all of us, in other words. Not least is his contribution in affirmatively di ...

Welcome to the Borderline Personality Disorder Research Foundation Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a severe, chronic, disabling, and potentially lethal psychiatric condition. People who suffer with this disorder have extreme and long standing instability in their emotional lives, as well as in their behavior and their self-image. This is a common disorder affecting 2% of the general population. The best evidence indicates that about 11% of psychiatric outpatients and 19% of ...

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An Overview of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy in the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder by Barry Kiehn and Michaela Swales Patients showing the features of Borderline Personality Disorder as defined in DSM-IV are notoriously difficult to treat (Linehan 1993a). They are difficult to keep in therapy, frequently fail to respond to our therapeutic efforts and make considerable demands on the emotional resources of the therapist, particular when suicidal and parasuicidal behaviours ...

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The Dual Diagnosis Pages: "From Our Desk" Article posted 25 March, 2000 Dual Diagnosis and the Borderline Personality Disorder Table of Contents The Borderline Personality Disorder Treating the The Borderline Personality Disorder Dual Diagnosis Treatment: Treating the Addicted Borderline Personality Disorder For references, see the Bibliography page Cluster B: The Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Essential Feature The essential feature of the Borderline Personality ...

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Borderline Personality DisorderWhat Is It? Symptoms Diagnosis Expected Duration Prevention Treatment When To Call a Professional Prognosis Additional Info What Is It? Borderline personality disorder is characterized by poor self-image, great difficulty coping with loneliness and feeling empty. People with this disorder have unstable relationships, highly reactive and intense moods, and impul ...

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Search:The WebAngelfire Search Jobs Share This Page Report Abuse Edit your Site Browse Sites « Previous | Top 100 | Next » This page is all about Borderline Personality Disorder and includes my Personal Borderline Story about how it is to live with Borderline Personality Disorder The core disorder in BPD is emotional dysregulation. Emotional dysregulation is viewed as a joint outcome of biological disposition, environmental context, and the transaction between the two during ...

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Paranoid Personality Disorder American Description Diagnostic Criteria A pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by four (or more) of the following: suspects, without sufficient basis, that others are exploiting, harming, or deceiving him or her is preoccupied with unjustified doubts about the loyalty or trustworthiness of friends or assoc ...

Overview of Borderline Personality Disorder The Personality Disorders Institute offers the following information to the general public to enhance awareness of the particulary challenging psychiatric conditions known as borderline disorders or borderline personalities. Many patients struggle not only with symptoms such as depression, anxieties, obsessions or phobias for which help is typically sought, but also with control of emotion and agression, understanding of self, and tolerance of the t ...

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Join Now | Sign In | Bookmark This Page Home Resource Directory Disorders Quizzes Ask Meds Blog News Book Reviews Chats Support Community advertisement Borderline Personality Disorder Treatment Table of Contents Introduction Psychotherapy Hospitalization Medications Self-Help Introduction Borderline personality disorder is experienced in individuals in many different ways. Often, people with this disorder will find it more difficult to distinguish between reali ...

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