Borderline personality disorder

As we all know, cell phones were made for talking to one another. With everything being so high-tech now, we are able to do much more than that. Now able to get on the internet at the touch of a button, use a cell phone as a camera, and get the weather all within 2 minutes. Sure, we all love our cell phones, but is it too harsh to say that some people would be absolutely lost without it? Choosing this topic was easy for me. I see first hand in my family, my 12-year-old sister has an iPhone 6,…

emotional stress such as doing things nice for herself or finding distracting activities, Dr. Banks wanted to reduce the capacity for the memories to produce distress. Dr. Banks uses an exposure technique that is similar to post-traumatic stress disorder in which Banks would slowly expose Karen to the traumatic memories and stimuli, or things that trigger her memories. In these exercises, Karen was asked to repeatedly to describe the events in general detail. With recounting the memories to Dr.…

For example, I have a client that struggles with borderline personality disorder. She is constantly going to jail because of her substance abuse, she lost custody of her daughter, and has a weak relationship with her parents. We found that DBT would be a perfect start for her recovery. She is now attending regular…

became more mindful of this bias as to ensure that I stayed in my professional role and continued to work with her through a lens of a Certified Peer Support. Secondly, my inexperience of working with an individual like Susie with a Borderline Personality Disorder at first hindered my ability to understand why Susie would become extremely upset and distressed about minor issues and had extreme emotional reactions continuously. My inexperience with the diagnosis interfered at first with my…

Dating back to the 1800s, serial murders have been recorded around the world, although serial killers are a rare event, “estimated to comprise less than one percent of all murders” (FBI). Over the past years, psychologists, law enforcement agencies, and the media have been studying serial killers since the most famous killer, Jack the Ripper in the 1800s. There are many different definitions of a serial killer. Experts have focused on the number of victims involved, and the types of motives.…

Readers of “A Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe view it with a mixture of fascination and confusion, arising from the conniving plot of murder carried out by the story’s main character, Montresor. A member of the European oligarchy, Montresor is insulted by another of the elite he considers a friend, named Fortunato. Montresor approaches Fortunato during carnival season about a pipe of wine known as Amontillado that he claims to have purchased in order to lure him to the catacombs…

my kids back. But I did it and I still can't get my kids back. They don't understand me or my culture ............... I read all the material in my program, I don't have a weed addiction. The first place (clinic) I went to said I was Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). I was like 'what is that?' They really wouldn't tell me but said they…

You would think that being 17 and pregnant is the worst thing possible that could happen to someone, especially while trying to graduate. However, getting pregnant was the best thing that has ever happened to me, yes I had to quit cheerleading, however it changed the person I was. I have become more aware of the person I want to be, the person I want my child to look up to, and be proud of calling mommy. I have realized I don 't want my child to see the scars on my arm, the tears and pain in my…

Mindfulness Practice Mindfulness has been used as an ancient technique of meditation practiced by the followers of Buddhism. In essence, Buddhism offers a training of awareness through the right conduct and internal realizations. Mindfulness is one of the aspects of this training and allows a direct manipulation of one’s awareness. However, one doesn’t need to follow the Buddhist tradition in order to practice mindfulness and in fact, as the Eastern philosophies have spread to the Western…

A lot of people want to blame the parents of the offenders, asking “what did you turn your child into?” 36% of serial killers were physically abused, 26% were sexually abused, and 50% were psychologically abused (Mitchell and Aamodt 45). Many people have logically come to the conclusion that just because someone is abused, it does not mean that they will become a serial killer; or even a murderer; which is true. In the general population (people who have never committed murder) only 6% are…