Anything to Stop the Pain - BPD and Non-BPDs
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Anything to Stop the Pain by Bon Dobbs, provides help for partners and parents of people with Borderline Personality Disorder
Anything to Stop the Pain - BPD and Non-BPDs
5y ago
The state is teaming up with Silicon Valley to make mental health services more available. Promises abound, and so do potential problems. Last winter, several dozen people who were struggling with suicidal urges and bouts of intense emotion opened their lives to a company called Mindstrong, in what has become a closely watched experiment in Silicon Valley. Mindstrong, a venture co-founded by a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, promised something that no drug or talk therapy can provide: an early-warning system that would flag the user when an emotional crisis seemed i ..read more
Anything to Stop the Pain - BPD and Non-BPDs
5y ago
There was no significant interaction between having a problem with the use of alcohol or any drug and improvement of symptoms on any scales BPD Treatment Can Succeed for Patients Who Misuse Drugs SAN FRANCISCO—If patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and drug misuse are able to complete specialized personality disorder treatment, they will likely experience significant improvement, suggests a study presented at the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting. “Participants [in our personality disorder treatment program] having a problem with the use of drugs had a higher dr ..read more