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BPD: A Recipe For Self-Hate?
The essence of borderline self-hate revolves around the reality of the loss of "authentic-self" and the subsequent emergence of the "false-self". This must be reversed in order to recover from BPD.
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Personality Disorders and PPMD
A new study finds that women with Avoidant PD, Dependent PD and Obsessive-Compulsive PD are at increased risk of Post-Partum Depression.
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Are You BPD or Do You Have BPD?
"Being borderline" becomes a bad habit. Too many people diagnosed with BPD hand over their entire entity to this personality disorder. You can choose to face that you have BPD without having to <b>be</b> borderline. "Being borderline" precludes recovery.
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B P D - Fear: A Roller-Coaster Ride
At the heart of much of BPD is fear. Fear of getting to know oneself and fear of what one feels. Much of borderline fear is irrational in the here and now. A look at fear and BPD.
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Borderline Dilemma - The Way It Was For Me
The borderline dilemma illustrated in action descriptively as I used to experience it.
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Borderline Personality - Devaluation - The Slippery Slope
Borderline devaluation destroys relationships and perpetuates the cycle of self-abuse and self-hatred that are often present in the borderline experience. This devaluation is a slippery-slope.
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Borderline Personality Disorder - Enabling Versus Helping
The difference between helping and enabling is explored. I talk about how this applies to those with Borderline Personality Disorder and the reality that enabling is a feature of co-dependence.
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Borderline Personality Disorder and Sexual Abuse
Many who are diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder were sexually abused as children. Studies have shown this. I talk about my experience and how integrating my experiences of being sexually abused enabled me to heal the BPD.
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Borderline Personality Disorder and The Media
Why is Borderline Personality Disorder not better represented in the media? Why is it essentially being ignored? Much of the stigma still attached to BPD had to do with misinformation, a lack of professional enlightenment (on the part of many professionals) and media-misrepresentations.
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Borderline Quandry -- Who AM I?
A look at what one must do in order to reclaim one's true self and to answer the question: Who am I? Answering this question is the way to reclaim your lost stable sense of identity. It is a cornerstone in healing from BPD.
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Borderlines And The Terror Of Need
Why are borderline's terrified of being needed? Why does it feel unsafe to need anything from anyone else? A look at why borderlines continue to look to others to meet their needs and at why many fear being needed by others.
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BPD: Is Recovery On The Increase?
Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is not only possible it is on the increase. It has been overlooked and is still much disputed by some
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BPD: The Secondary Gains Accepted as "The Way It Is"
A look at the secondary gains of Borderline Personality Disorder and the reality that they can in fact keep you stuck. Pursuing the secondary gains of BPD is a choice. If you continue to make this choice you will block your own ability to heal.
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Child Sexual Abuse and Dissociative Identity Disorder
It has been noted by clinicians that most patients who suffer from dissociative disorders were abused either physically or sexually when they were children. This article explores DID, previously referred to as MPD.
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Depressive Personality Disorder
An overview of depressive personality disorder (DPD), pervasive patterns of depressive behavior subject to much controversy.
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Grandiosity: Borderline Style
An examination of the purpose and consequence of grandiosity to the borderline and those around him/her. Grandiosity is a defense mechanism that keeps borderlines stuck in the helplessness that perpetuates the illusion that their neediness is valid and that it's okay to visit it upon others.
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Hyper-Vigilance Borderline Style
Hyper-vigilance is not limited to those with Borderline Personality Disorder, however, it is common among borderlines. It is a choice. Like banging your head against the wall, it feels so good to stop it.
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In Defiance of Authority - Borderline Personality Disorder
Often those with Borderline Personality Disorder defy authority as a way of trying to control others to over-compensate for how out of control they feel. Defiance is distancing and results in loss.
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Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited
What is narcissism - rather, what is pathological narcissism? And why is it important to learn about it?
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Mental Disorders and Crime: Personality Disorders
An examination of the relationships between personality disorders and criminal behavior/violence.
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Narcissism and The Borderline Experience
A look at the experience and consequences of borderline narcissism prefaced by an explanation of the roots of narcissism in both Greek Mythology and Psychoanalysis. I also include a description of the difference between Borderline Personality Disorder and Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
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One More Abandonment Will Lead To Recovery
The reality that you must experience yet another abandonment in order to recover from Boderline Personality Disorder is explored.
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Unacknowledged Grief Can Keep You Stuck in the Throes of BPD
An examination of the role that acknowledging and grieving loss and pain plays in recovering from BPD.
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When I was borderline...and looking for space
I explore what is was like When I Was Borderline and again I say that there is such hope for you to heal -- all you have to do is chose to heal.
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Overview of Personality Disorders
Here are quick links to help you easily find recent Suite101.com articles on the general topic of Personality Disorders and PD Clusters.
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Personality Research 10-07
Here are quick links to the studies that were reviewed at Suite101 PD during the month of October 2007.
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy DBT
DBT is a a therapeutic approach, designed by Marsha M. Linehan, Ph.D., specifically for chronically suicidal borderline patients.
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Traits of Malignant Narcissism
Most of us have narcissistic traits, and a certain degree of self-interest is healthy. But at what point does self-absorption become pathological narcissism?
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A Great Admiration
To paraphrase what Henry James' once said of Louisa May Alcott, my experience of genius is small but my admiration for it is, nevertheless, great. When I visited the "Figarohaus" in Vienna - where Mozart lived and worked for two crucial years - I experienced a great fatigue, the sort that comes with HASHLAMA. In the presence of real genius, I slumped into a chair and listened for one listless hour to its fruits: symphonies, the divine Requiem, arias, a cornucopia.
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A Holiday Grudge
In times like that, in holidays and birthdays, I am reminded of this fundamental truth: my voluptuous, virulent, spiteful, hissing and spitting grudge is all I have. Those who threaten to take it away from me - with their love, affection, compassion, or care - are my mortal enemies indeed.
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A Non-Borderline's Quest to Understand Borderlines
I answer the questions of a non-borderline married to a borderline who is seeking some more understanding as to why the borderline in her life does what he does.
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Am I Getting Better or Worse?
The Cycle of Recovery and Relapse and the reality that steps back are meant to teach us and enable us to take further steps forward in a stronger way. This cycle is the backbone of healing.
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Antisocial Personality Disorder
Psychopath, sociopath, or antisocial - all refer to a manipulative person with an alarming lack of conscience. And this personality isn't as uncommon as you may think.
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Avoidant Personality Disorder
Painfully shy and sensitive to rejection, those with Avoidant PD generally feel inferior to others and often choose loneliness over the risk of vulnerability.
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Being Borderline: The Senseless Numbness of Agony
Borderlines numb their feelings to protect themselves from the very pain that they need to feel, grieve and move through in order to heal.
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Being There
My life is not a thread, it is a patchwork of chance encounters, haphazard exams, and the drug of narcissistic supply consumed. I feel like a series of still frames, somehow improperly animated. I know the audience is there. I crave their adulation. I try to reach out, to break the mould of the album of photographs that I became - to no avail. I am trapped in there forever. And if none of you chooses to inspect my image at a given moment, I fade, in sepia colours. Until I am no longer.
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Beware the Children
I see in children feigned innocence, relentless and ruthless manipulation, the cunning of the weak. They are ageless. Their narcissism is disarming in its directness, in its cruel and absolute lack of empathy. They demand with insistence, punish absent-mindedly, idealize and devalue capriciously.
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Bi-Polar and Multi-Personality Disorders
RoseMeade shares an exercise she used to bring about a healing from Borderline Personality Disorder and Multi-Personality Trojans. If you feel you can be helped by learning more about this exercise, take a moment and read her new article.
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Book Review: Cover Up Of The Century
Review of the book "Cover Up Of the Century: Satanic Ritual Crime & World Conspiracy" by Daniel Ryder.
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Borderline Chase For Health
Borderline Personality is "crazy-making" as are the reasons for its development. Each borderline must search for health by sticking with therapy and searching for his/her healthy, true self.
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Borderline Devaluation
Borderline devaluation is explored. Devaluation is a defense mechanism used by the borderline to avoid the dealing with the "good and the bad" which is often stressful.
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Borderline Dysphoria -- The Shame At Its Core
An examination of the role that shame plays in borderline dysphoria. Some suggestions as to how to deal with shame.
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Borderline In Relationships Only?
I answer the questions of a non-borderline about borderlines, borderline behaviour and relationships.I also share a bit about my own turning point in healing.
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Borderline is as Borderline Does?
I talk about that fact that borderlines are people. There are real and hurting vulnerable human beings behind that borderline behavior.
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Borderline Pain Cries Out To Be Addressed
The pain of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) cries out to be addressed. It is the motivating force behind so much negative and impacting behaviour that, in fact, adds to the overall pain each borderline experiences. Borderlines need to choose to face their pain in order to heal.
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Borderline Personality Disorder
Those with BPD have difficulty regulating their emotions and can be very self-destructive. But there is promising treatment for those suffering from this disorder.
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BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER
Borderline Personality Disorder, what it is, what it feels like and how it is treated.
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Borderline Personality Disorder

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Borderline Personality Disorder - The Cure?
Can BPD be cured? Is the word "cure" relevant? I talk about the fact that I have recovered from BPD, therefore it can be overcome. Learning to identify one's choices and to take responsibility for them is the way to "the cure".
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Borderline Personality Disorder - The life not lived
Living with BPD is living a life not lived. BPD usurps your personality to the point that you become a false-self living a false-life that is almost certainly from your past. Making new choices is the way to re-claim your authentic self and is the way to living the life that awaits you in the here and now.
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