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Brief admission during crisis for people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder

The Mental Elf

Dan Warrender publishes his debut elf blog on a recent systematic review, which suggests that brief admission as a crisis management tool is acceptable and can be effective for people with 'borderline personality disorder'.

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How I Developed a Critical Perspective on Psychiatry

Mad in America

It’s tragic that these people may then be wrongly labelled as personality disordered, bipolar, or psychotic. A person may come into hospital on no drugs at all, only to leave with several psychiatric drugs, often causing adverse side effects which leads to more prescriptions to counteract the side effects.

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Mad Camp Europe: My Journey from Ward Violence to Healing and Community

Mad in America

I got two diagnoses, borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder with ultra-rapid cycling, a fact that I hid throughout my whole time of service for the hospital. It was a warlike situation; we couldn’t leave the ward, we couldn’t leave the hospital, and we were all stuck inside there.

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On Psychotherapeutic Literacy

Mad in America

Trends in Diagnosis One day, I mustered the courage to ask him if my assumption that I might have borderline personality disorder was accurate. He chuckled and retorted, “You think you have borderline personality disorder? But you don’t have borderline personality disorder.”

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Is Madness an Evolved Signal? Justin Garson on Strategy Versus Dysfunction

Mad in America

I think that the stress of that triggered a series of psychotic episodes and he was hospitalized. And so I spent a lot of my teenage years visiting him in various mental hospitals and getting a very clear glimpse of the toll of this cycle of hospitalization, labelling and drugging. I was also put on Prozac.

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Understanding Quiet BPD: Symptoms, Treatment, and the Role of TMS

My Psychiatry

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a complex mental health condition marked by intense emotions, unstable relationships, a fluctuating self-image, and impulsive behaviors. TMS is drug-free, involves no systemic side effects, and does not require anesthesia or hospitalization. What is Quiet BPD?

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Day # 147: Bulimia Nervosa Part 2

Bullet Psych

Individuals with other mental disorders may display a disordered relationship with food or their body image but not meet full criteria for BN. A complete medical evaluation is necessary in order to assess for complications and determine whether hospitalization is necessary.