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[Cyber]

Has anyone covered Borderline Personality Disorder?

When I took abnormal psych, I wrote my paper about Janis Joplin, diagnosing her with this illness.  A good friend of mine works in the psych field and says that MOST cases of BPD are a result of some form of abuse as a child, particularly sexual abuse.  Now, I have NO idea if this was the case in the Joplin household...

...but has anyone else seen this correlation between BPD and childhood abuse?

[donna]

I worked with a girl who was diagnosed Multiple personality disorder.  I worked with her for many years and we got along very well.  I was always under the impression that the changes from one personality to another was obvious and sudden (in some people it may be that way), but in my experience we might be talking about something that would make us both laugh, and the I would notice a definite change in what I called her mood.  She did not announce that a name or that she was moving to another person or anything, she just got into this uncharacteristic change of mood I use the word mood for lack of a better word in this case.  I did not bring this to her attention because I felt it might embarrass her, so I just continued along in the conversation until "she" got back to herself again.  She did not mention it and neither did I.

Times when she was under severe stress or fear, again we would be talking, but this time she became Michael Jackson, a performer that she loved.  At the same time she was scared to death of him, and she would always tell me that she hopes he does not visit her on a particular night.

Sadly this beautiful young woman was plagued with many other psychiatric disorders including peraonality disorders, namely borderline personality disorder.

Can anybody share any experiences like the one that I described?  This woman had layer after layer of different psychosis at different times.  Of course her childhood was one where she received ritual beatings naked outdoors from her father and then he would sexually abuse her, to this day he still does, so you can see the nightmare of her life.

Donna

[~Me]

What about Dr. Sketch's favorite DSM-IV code 302.4 --> Exhibitionism?  :wink:

Exhibitionism is a disorder!?!

[Cyber]

So is transvestitism...I'll have to look in my pocked DSM-IV TR to see if voyeurism is as well.

[~Me]

There's another eating disorder that hasn't even been mentioned yet!  It's Nocturnal Eating Syndrome (also called: Nocturnal Sleep-Eating Disorder or even Sleep Eating)...it is considered both an eating disorder and a sleep disorder.  I have a friend that has this and it causes her lots of trouble...once we're done with anorexia and bulimia can we talk about it?  Do any of you know of someone who has this?  Dealt with it yourself?  Those can be answered later, but I'm really interested in this topic.

Thanks guys!  

I know someone that eats while she sleeps, never knew it until she was caught in the act, still VERY much asleep.

[Cyber]

There's another eating disorder that hasn't even been mentioned yet!  It's Nocturnal Eating Syndrome (also called: Nocturnal Sleep-Eating Disorder or even Sleep Eating)...it is considered both an eating disorder and a sleep disorder.  I have a friend that has this and it causes her lots of trouble...once we're done with anorexia and bulimia can we talk about it?  Do any of you know of someone who has this?  Dealt with it yourself?  Those can be answered later, but I'm really interested in this topic.

Thanks guys!  

I know someone that eats while she sleeps, never knew it until she was caught in the act, still VERY much asleep.

Wow, that's amazing.  I've only seen someone do that once and they were in a lucid state from taking Ambien.

CNN featured a story about those who have sex with their partners while fully asleep and that it was "more common than previously thought"...HUH???   :shock:  :shock:  :shock:  :shock:  :shock:

[donna]

Hi everybody,   yes voyeurism is considered a disorder.  Used to be that homoseuality was considered a disorder too, but as times change so does the DSM criteria.    
                                    donna

[~Me]

Hi everybody,   yes voyeurism is considered a disorder.  Used to be that homoseuality was considered a disorder too, but as times change so does the DSM criteria.    
                                    donna

Seriously...... :wink:

Yeah the girl I'm talking about with the sleeping/eating disorder has been doing it for years and years, and never could figure out why she couldn't loose weight, she is well over 300 lbs.


as far as mental disorders go, how about sexual disorders, are they considered mental disorders?

[donna]

  hi me,  it depends on your definition of sexual disorder.  I mean Pedophelia is a sexual disorder.  but Jeffry Darhmer was mentally ill too. can you be more specific?  Disorders are not necessarily mental illnesses.  For instance personality disorders, adjustment disorders,  This may get confusing so bear with me.  A person can have a disorder and a mental illness.  Most of the time disorders are linked to personality, or character  when they stand alone.   I hope this helped.       Donna

[Lynne]

Interesting idea for a mental illness topic, in light of things.  Stalking definition (from http://www.xs4all.nl/~cdirks/engfat1.html):
 
What is Stalking?
Stalking is a serious crime that involves the intentional, malicious, repeated following and harassment of a person, causing the person to fear for his or her safety. Stalkers try - often successfully - to exercise power and control over another person. Stalkers have an emotional obsession with the victim and resort to stalking as a way of maintaining contact. Most stalking cases involve people with a prior acquaintance.

I thought this site was interesting as well:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/assist/nvaa2002/chapter22_2.html:

Documentation/evidence collection.
Documentation of stalking should be saved and given to law enforcement.
Documentation of the perpetrators' actions may be useful in future complaints or proceedings for evidentiary or credibility purposes.
Documentation may take the form of photos of destroyed property/vandalism or any injury inflicted on the victim by the perpetrator; answering machine messages saved on tape; letters or notes written by the perpetrator; affidavits from witnesses; and other materials.
All documentation and evidence collected should be kept in a safe place to prevent theft by the perpetrator.

[~Me]

So someone is afraid of this stalker?

Boy ~Me is cornfused!  :oops:

[Lynne]

So someone is afraid of this stalker?
Boy ~Me is cornfused!  :oops:

I guess you are.  We aren't talking about anyone in particular - just the mental illness issue of stalking.  Stalking often has as much a harrassment component that is annoying and interferes, so it gets tossed in the mix, which is nice, because then there are legal remedies.  

[~Me]

Otay, NOW ~Me is even MORE cornfused!





Maybe it isn't in the cards for ~Me to understand this one.

[Cristina]

Has anyone covered Borderline Personality Disorder?

When I took abnormal psych, I wrote my paper about Janis Joplin, diagnosing her with this illness.  A good friend of mine works in the psych field and says that MOST cases of BPD are a result of some form of abuse as a child, particularly sexual abuse.  Now, I have NO idea if this was the case in the Joplin household...

...but has anyone else seen this correlation between BPD and childhood abuse?

I see it. I have BPD . I was first diagnosed with depression, than bipolar, than I told the psychiatrists I think I have BPD any why.

I was certainly subjected to plenty of childhood abuse, grew up in a broken home, my grand parents spoild me, my mom never disaplined me. It was all a recipe for disaster.

I am really showing the symptoms now as I do not have the coping skills for day to day life. I constantly have this empty feeling inside, I have no sense of self worth. I FEAR abandonment. I can go on  about this. It's hard living with this. I can feel happy to depressed to rage all in a day. I feel as though I keep running into dead ends. I am on a mood stablizer to control my anger out bursts and take an anti depressant for feeling depressed. javascript:emoticon(':oops:')

I am also looking into a live in rehab/psych to help me cope. After I plan on going to dialectal behavioral therapy.

[xenya]

Sadly this beautiful young woman was plagued with many other psychiatric disorders including peraonality disorders, namely borderline personality disorder.

Can anybody share any experiences like the one that I described?  This woman had layer after layer of different psychosis at different times.  Of course her childhood was one where she received ritual beatings naked outdoors from her father and then he would sexually abuse her, to this day he still does, so you can see the nightmare of her life.

Donna

I'm not sure if this person is still on here... But it's called co-morbidity. A lot of psych illnesses will have a high co-morbidity, that is, if you have this disease, you most likely have these as well. Dissociative disorders exist on a scale, with normal daydreaming at one end, and DID at the other. In between is depersonalization and post traumatic stress disorder ( a couple of others also). So, if a person has DID, they most likely suffer from PTSD as well.
Borderline is another one. Borderlines live in a state of constant drama, seeing things in black and white, and the symptoms often correlate to symptoms of other diseases as well. A lot of people are misdiagnosed, in part due to insurance. Personality disorders are hard to treat, so insurance sees them as long term treatment and don't like to see that come across their radar. DID is still debatable in the psychiatric community, and it's rare, so they are usually misdiagnosed for years before getting diagnosed correctly. A therapist may see their personality switches as 'mood swings' and diagnose them as being bi-polar.
Most psych hospitals are not equipped to deal with DID patients. They are used to depression, bi-polar, and PTSD. They don't know how to treat someone outside these guidelines. Their goal is to stabilize the person so they won't kill themselves, then send them back to out-patient therapy as quickly as possible, because insurance will only cover a certain number of days of in-patient treatment.

I apologize if some of this was already posted. I saw this thread pop up, but it apparently began a year ago, and I didn't read all the back posts.