New Treatment to Reduce Self-Harm Being Offered
Saturday October 11, 2008
Dr. Kim L. Gratz and colleagues at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi are offering a new group treatment designed to reduce self-harm behaviors as part of a research study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. If you are interested in taking part in this treatment study, follow this link for more information and study contact information:
Comments
I do not think the title of the article and the argument you then put forth agree with each other. Obviously, not many borderlines go to the violent maniacal lengths that Alex Forrest went to. However, after watching the film, a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder would certainly fit the character. True it is only ONE depiction of bpd, making it inevitably a case study and not worthy of use as a generalization for a whole population of mentally ill individuals. However, this does not make it “inaccurate.”
And it should be noted that Glenn Close believes that the character was a victim of sexual abuse “pre-verbally”. Watch the extras on the DVD.
Given that so many women who have been diagnosed with BPD have been victims of one form of abuse or another what’s so inappropriate about their rage? If somebody has been sexually abused by somebody that is supposedly to be protecting them surely rage is a reasonable response.
It’s time to stop the stigma and acknowledge the trauma that creates BPD.
Some are monsters. Some are not. Unfortunately, I’ve encountered a few who were monsters. And the terror inflicted by them was very close to that of Glen Close’s character. There is a spectrum with BPD, from the healthier end to the very unhealthy (those with co-morbid Antisocial Personality, for example). And the ones at the unhealthy end are nothing short of monsters.
My ex wife suffers from BPD, she has attacked me in public, she has verbally assaulted my girlfriend she has done everything to try to destroy me financially – in short maybe not a monster, more like a devil or terrorist . .
Certainly, movies dramatize their subject. This hardly needs to be said.
But I don’t really understand why this small article ends with the suggestion that being borderline might actually have some positive benefits.
Borderlines often cause chaos in the lives of their loved ones. The devastation doesn’t need to be dramatized, yet doesn’t need to be minimized.