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Best of Our Blogs: September 24, 2013
Ever wonder why sometimes it’s easier to “be mean” via text rather than in person? How could admitting and accepting your emotional sensitivity change your life? Would you be more likely to work at overcoming your fears if you knew how to organize them? Our Psych Central bloggers present some seriously thought-provoking ideas, studies, and overall conversation starters this week. Hiding Behind Technology to Be Mean (Relationships in Balance) — Bet you think it’s easier for people to “be mean” behind technology (think email, text messages, and social media) because, well, there...
Source: World of Psychology - September 24, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Alicia Sparks Tags: Best of Our Blogs anxiety Attitudes Borderline Personality Disorder Creativity Emotional Sensitivity Emotions Fears Feelings Panic Anxiety Relationships Self-reflection Sensitive Person Technology Source Type: blogs

5 Signs Your Teen Needs Mental Health Treatment
Teens go through emotional ups and downs all the time. Hormones are changing, life can seem overwhelming, and without much life experience, a young adult can feel misguided. When parents are busy working, or a natural separation from family occurs, teens may turn to friends instead of parents. Peer support can be helpful for certain issues. But when the symptoms of a mental illness are present, more than a good friend is needed. The problem is, teens may not understand what the feelings they experience mean. As a parent, it’s important to stay connected so that you notice any changes or any symptoms of a mental illn...
Source: World of Psychology - September 21, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Jared Friedman Tags: Addiction Alcoholism Anxiety and Panic Children and Teens Depression Eating Disorders Family General Mental Health and Wellness Parenting Students Substance Abuse Treatment Attention Deficit Disorder Attention Deficit Hyperacti Source Type: blogs

Is it ethical to instil false hope in people with mental illness?
There's an ethical consensus in medicine that it's wrong to give patients with physical illness false hope. But what about patients with mental health problems? Might the provision of unrealistic optimism be a vital part of their treatment? Or might this serve only to prolong their suffering? Psychiatrist Justine Dembo at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre has explored these delicate issues in a thought-provoking essay. Dembo highlights research showing the numerous positive illusions to which most psychologically healthy people are prone. This includes feelings that we're better than average, that we have more control...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 16, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs

Borderline: Understanding the Patients that Psychologists Fear
This article explores what it’s like to live with borderline personality disorder. What Causes BPD? Sufferers of BPD often experienced neglect, abuse or unstable attachments as children. Borderlines lack coping skills because they failed to learn them as children. Borderline sufferers did not have their emotions regularly validated as children. They were taught that the world and those closest to them in it should be expected to be unstable and unpredictable and their responses should coincide accordingly. Have more questions? Check out this frequently asked questions guide to BPD. What is the Treatment for BPD? Dia...
Source: World of Psychology - September 7, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Amanda O'Donnell Tags: Borderline Personality Disorders General Psychotherapy Treatment Borderline Patients Borderline Personality Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder Bpd Borderlines Demystification Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Emotional Reactions Source Type: blogs

Schizotypal Disorder: Similar to Other Disorders, Yet Unique
Not to be confused with schizophrenia, nor schizoaffective disorder (with which it is often confused with simply due to its name), schizotypal personality disorder is in a league of its own. The biggest distinction in diagnosis, at least, is that schizotypal disorder is one of the personality disorders (along with borderline, obsessive-compulsive and several others, including a few mentioned below). Delusions and hallucinations are the hallmark of schizoaffective disorder, almost akin to schizophrenia. In schizotypal disorder, however, these two traits are not so extensive as they are with people with schizophrenia. ...
Source: World of Psychology - July 30, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Lisa A. Miles Tags: Brain and Behavior Disorders General Mental Health and Wellness Personality Psychology Borderline Personality Disorder Close Relationships Closer Look Delusions Disorder Definitions Eccentricities Eccentricity Everyday Behavior Source Type: blogs

Suicide and Alcohol
Alcohol Use Disorders among Patients Examined in Emergency Departments after a Suicide Attempt To assess the prevalence of alcohol use disorders (AUD) in a population of patients examined following attempted suicide and compare suicide attempts with and without AUD. 180 patients examined in an emergency department after a suicide attempt were compared with 180 controls paired for sex and age. All patients answered the CAGE and the Fagerström questionnaire. The DSM-IV-R criteria for alcohol, nicotine and cannabis abuse and dependence, as well as for borderline and antisocial personality, were checked. The prevalence of AU...
Source: Twelve Step Facilitation.com - July 29, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Alcohol Alcoholism Assessment Demographics Relapse prevention alcohol-use disorders Emergency Departments suicide attempt Source Type: blogs

Mermaids
She is older than I was when the darkness dragged me down. She is so much wiser. Sweeter, more adventurous. Were those things stolen from me, too?The questions I would ask are drowned in the twilight ringing with laughter from the pool. I feel it - 7 years old - and I act it, splashing, diving, doing headstands underwater. Showing Amy how to breaststroke and kick turn.If you are one, like me, with the hyperactive thoughts, if your thoughts cascade over your head as full and powerful and rushing as a waterfall...drown them. Find something that shuts them out. Find something that makes you SO happy, you are literally soaking...
Source: Turquoise Gates - July 25, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: living in the moment child abuse mothering with PTSD sexual abuse DBT mindfulness borderline personality disorder Source Type: blogs

Invisible Illnesses and Special Treatment
Two kinds of posts endlessly circulate on Facebook. Both of them are quite whiny. This one popped up yesterday and is representative of the Type 1 post, INVISIBLE ILLNESS and is presented with odd spellings and punctuation exactly as everyone else posts it: "Ignorant people can be so cruel!! I'm posting this because recently I have been mocked and laughed at for things beyond my control... I have three of these illnesses as does some of my friends.... Not one of my Facebook friends will copy and paste (but I am counting on a true family member or friend to do it). If you would be there for me no matter wha...
Source: Had a Dad Alzheimers Blog - July 15, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: GBP })i({ Source Type: blogs

Hijinks On The Mountain, Holiday Style
"Ambulance 1, stage at Summit and Back Mountain Road. Lost hikers." Should this be a surprise? Perhaps. But it isn't. This comes after two previous calls, the first being an individual who filleted their forearm after multiple rounds of alcohol and the second being a minor motorcycle accident. So we stage. In the meantime, an engine company assignment and the covering officer were dispatched to the area where the hikers were supposed to be near, at least according to the coordinates the cell phone of the hiker who called for help. When the other responding units arrived they prepared to go into the area where the hikers ...
Source: Life in Manch Vegas - July 10, 2013 Category: Ambulance Crew Source Type: blogs

What is BPD?
Borderline Personality Disorder, or BPD, is a very serious illness that is hard to cope with for the patient and the patient’s family. The Meehl Foundation founded Meehl House in order to help patients restore balance to their lives, and the lives of those around them. The Meehl House is operated as a holistic center that helps to restore the patients mind, body, and spirit. Borderline Personality Disorder is a complicated disease and while it can strike anyone, at any time, the disease strikes women 75% of the time. Women with a history of unstable or failed relationships, which result in low self-esteem are parti...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - June 27, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Addiction Recovery Author Tags: Addiction Recovery Tips Source Type: blogs

Clinical psychology trainees outperform experienced therapists on knowledge and skills
Conducted in Germany, this study pitched undergrad psychology students, postgrad clinical psychology trainees and experienced psychological therapists against each other on tests of psychological knowledge and skills. The slightly worrying result is that the trainees aced it, outperforming not just the students (on most tests) but also the experienced therapists. "The picture is not so bright" for the seasoned therapists, the researchers said. "Our results point to a decrease in knowledge and variability in clinical competence." The research led by Sabine Vollmer had two parts. The first involved 55 novice, intermedi...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - June 24, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs

Effective Residential Treatment of Mental Illnesses
The affect that mental illnesses can have on people is astounding. Not only is it directly related to the people suffering from these mental conditions such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder as well as borderline personality disorder, but these conditions affect a person’s friends and family as well. Mental illnesses can drive people away, emotionally scar people and in some cases, can lead to physical harm of the person experiencing the mental illness. That is precisely why the Meehl Foundation was established. This foundation was started by Mark and Debra Meehl as a result of their own family exper...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - June 21, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Addiction Recovery Author Tags: Addiction Recovery Tips Source Type: blogs

Advocacy: Striving for Wholeness after Mental Health Awareness Month
May marked the end of another Mental Health Awareness Month. From the Newtown, Conn. tragedy in December 2012, to the Oscar-winning movie Silver Linings Playbook and all the way through the DSM-5 controversy this spring, mental illness has certainly been getting plenty of attention in the news. Spanning the horrific to the enlightening, from the uplifting to the nitty-gritty, these three cultural talking points alone have been reshaping America’s ongoing thinking about a frequently overlooked aspect of our general health. Considered in itself (or in its partial absence, illness), mental health shapes the rest of ...
Source: World of Psychology - June 7, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Lisa A. Miles Tags: Brain and Behavior Disorders General Mental Health and Wellness Policy and Advocacy Psychology Research Treatment advocacy. disease Borderline Personality Disorder Continuum Coping With Stress Disability Concerns Dsm Dsm 5 Em Source Type: blogs

A Play: The Turned Leaf
Elizabeth Christine Tanner wrote a play, The Turned Leaf, about her troublesome relationship with her mentally ill mother. “A young girl’s traumatic event may have triggered her inherited undiagnosed mental illness. The Turned Leaf follows one woman’s struggle with a mental illness, the effect it has on her and her loved ones. This drama is infused with modern dance , video elements, modern song and digs deep into the heart of the illness. ” Below is a brief synopsis of how she came to write the play and what she hopes to accomplish with it. Walking on eggshells is not just a phrase to me. It is ...
Source: World of Psychology - May 10, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Elizabeth Christine Tanner Tags: Anger Borderline Personality Disorders Family General Mental Health and Wellness Parenting Relationships Women's Issues Abstract Blind Rage Breathing Entity Demon Hastings heart Ill Mother Image Editor Letter To My Mother Source Type: blogs

Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Not Just for Mental Illness
When I was studying psychology in college, I remember having a particular distaste for the behavioral approaches of B.F. Skinner. Defining the sacred depths of being human by behavioral impulses akin to a mouse motivated by cheese was not for me. I was much more into psychoanalytic therapy and Jung. How then later did I come to embrace cognitive behavioral and related therapies that spell out that we are, essentially, just a mess of behaviors (good and bad)? If you dig into your family dynamic, and maybe establishing relationships with others from equally dysfunctional backgrounds, you are bound to have a change of heart ...
Source: World of Psychology - May 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Lisa A. Miles Tags: Bipolar Borderline Personality Brain and Behavior Depression Disorders General Mental Health and Wellness Psychotherapy B F Skinner Beginner Level Behavioral Approaches Borderline Personality Disorder Change Of Heart Dalai Lama Source Type: blogs