Essays on BPD

Abstract

This paper will examine the mental illness that is commonly referred to as Borderline Personality Disorder. I will provide an outline, as well as examine this specific personality disorder's history, possible causes, symptoms, and available treatments, as well as its prognosis. This paper is an overview of the illness, which has gained significant prominence in the mass media. By no means is this paper a full representation of the clinical picture of Borderline Personality Disorder. In order to explain the diagnostic criteria, the standard manual for psychopathology will be employed, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychological Disorders (DSM-V). This ...

1). First give a brief description of the character with enough detail for me to understandthe character in context (10 points). Dr. Meredith Grey from Grey’s Anatomy (2005) Dr. Meredith Grey is the main character in Grey’s Anatomy which is aired on ABC channel. Meredith is the daughter of Ellis Grey, who was a renowned General Surgeon. Ellis worked at Seattle Grey Hospital where Meredith spent most of her childhood because her mother was always very busy doing surgeries. When Meredith was five years old, her parents got divorce, because her father (Thatcher) came to know about ...

Article Summary

Kuo, J. R., & Linehan, M. M. (2009). Disentangling emotion processes in borderline personality disorder: physiological and self-reported assessment of biological vulnerability, baseline intensity, and reactivity to emotionally evocative stimuli. Journal of abnormal psychology, 118(3), 531. Borderline Personality Disorder is defined as “A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts.” The essential features of a personality disorder are “impairments in personality (self and interpersonal) functioning and the presence of pathological personality traits” (APA, 2013). In 1993, Marsha Linehan proposed a theory of Borderline ...

Introduction

Primal fear is an investigative movie, which tries to unravel the murder of a famous Bishop in Chicago. A young altar boy (Aaron) has been arrested for his murder. Aaron looks like an innocent kid, who stutters, and he is represented by Vail, who is a famous attorney. Vail believes that Aaron is innocent. In the middle of the trial, Vail finds out that Aaron has a disorder. With the disorder Aaron acts differently, he is a foul mouthed, violent, and obnoxious. Vail finds a sex tape that shows Aaron, another altar boy and a girl having sex, and they are being directed by the ...

Aggression and violence Modern versions of biological theories of violence focus on the role of biological and psychosocial factors in the understanding of violence. Many scholars argue that the exposure to environmental contaminants can be linked to neurobehavioral and a higher risk of antisocial behavior. Aggression can take on different meanings, thus separating it into categories like reactive or hostile aggression, and proactive or instrumental aggression. In children, reactive aggression is seen as tantrums. Bullying is a form of Proactive aggression. Early traumas may lead to over reactive, defensive, aggressive responses in the adults. People with PTSD (Widom313-44) feel stressed out ...

In the long term, the rise and fall in gasoline prices track its origin to the dynamic cost of crude oil. However, global crude oil market forces of worldwide demand, supply and competition have a significant cause to the prices of gasoline in the short term. With the aspired economic recovery, gasoline demand is on the rise despite the challenging unrest in oil producing regions (Africa and the Mideast). The combination of the increasing demand and a decreasing supply escalate gasoline prices. The gasoline price components include: 70% of the oil price, 13% of the price is taxes, marketing and ...

Jack the Ripper

This essay on Jack the Ripper seeks to develop a classification (typology) of the killer by discussing certain psychological, sociological and other aspects of the killer. In addition, based on the profiling, the essay will also explore what happened to the Ripper after he committed these murders.

Sociological Background

Based on the facts and witness accounts, the Ripper seemed to be from a background of poverty and misery, aged around 25-30 years of age, probably based in the same East End Area of London. It also seems that the Ripper probably came from a family with a dominant mother, and a weak father. Also, the Ripper ...

- Based on what the clinician has learned during the intake, what are some of the symptoms a clinician should look for, or ask about, when working with this client during the initial sessions? Explain each symptom. The clinician should quiz Meredith for signs of withdrawal from friends and family. People with mental health problems withdraw from family and friends and choose to spend most of their time alone. In connection to this, the clinician can quiz Meredith on her ability to understand those close to her. Questions like, do you get angry with people near you easily? Do ...

Reading through the research report, one can easily identify the problem that the research seeks to address. In other words, the problem statement is stated in a way that is not ambiguous but easy to identify. It begins from the third paragraph in the introduction section up to the seventh paragraph. In the third paragraph, the author states that the ideal treatment of comorbid conditions involve integrated approaches that target all the coexisting conditions. Conversely, treatments that have commonly been employed have failed to target the three conditions often occurring together: posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), borderline personality disorder (BPD), and ...

Introduction

Having an irritable friend, undergoing unstable relationship with fluctuating moods often makes one wonder if such a person is suffering from a personality disorder or not. Although, people might label others on the basis of some characteristics which they find deviant or awkward, diagnosing someone with a disorder requires a ground rule and a set of criteria. Personality disorders are diagnosed on Axis II of DSM IV TR which is a manual to diagnose mental disorders amongst individuals on the basis of standard criteria.

Symptoms and Diagnostic Criteria

Borderline personality disorder is a type of a personality disorder where a person is found to have inconsistent unstable relationships, emotional instability, impulsiveness, anger, ...

Institutions

Borderline Personality Disorder and Related Traits in Forensic Psychiatry: Article Review As Reid (2009) rightly points out, character traits affecting persons with personality disorders such as regulation of emotions, impaired judgment, impulse control, chaotic internal and external lives, inaccurate perceptions and inappropriate rationalization affect the outcome of criminal, civil and institutional cases. When such circumstances occur, questions arise about whether the allegation/evidence persons with personality disorders provide is admissible in courts of law. In order to resolve some of these cases, forensic examination is necessary. The premise behind the use of forensic examination is that it is the ...

Personality Disorders are a type of mental illness that includes a wide range of problems dealing with the world at large, and a number of perception problems that make living an ordinary modern life very difficult for the sufferers. There is a certain stigma attached to these kinds of disorders that often keeps sufferers from seeking treatment. The name applied to this group of disorders is misleading, since "personality," in common usage, tends to connote some kind of control or willfulness on the part of the sufferer – this leads many people to think that the sufferer is somehow at fault for the illness. ...

Abstract:

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a personality disorder that may have devastating consequences for the sufferer, their family, friends, work colleagues, and acquaintances. The diagnosis is often feared and greatly misunderstood. This review seeks to understand the nature of the disease and the problems it may cause. This analysis of the literature provides an overview of the diagnostics, epidemiology, course, and treatment of the disease. It discusses the implications of the disease to the patient’s family and their ability to have gainful employment. This paper seeks to aid in the understanding of the disease and treatment modalities available. ...

Introduction

Conventional energy sources are commonly non-renewable energy sources these sources are used since long time. Conventional energy sources are used in such extensively way that known reserves are reduced by a great extent. Now it has become more difficult to exploit and discover new deposits of conventional energy sources . It is known that petroleum deposits of our country would be exhausted in few decades while the coal reserves will last for hundred years. The petroleum, natural gas and coal are known conventional energy sources. These three sources account almost 80 percent of total energy sources.

Global energy demand is projected ...

Introduction

In the words of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally, there are others which a man is afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has considerable number of such things stored away” (Wedding & Stuber, 2010, p. 134). This case is about the reminiscences of one such young girl. An 18 year old girl, Dora who, since 12 years of age had been suffering ...

The influence and effect of dreams on human health has been a subject of much study and research by medical and psychological professionals for centuries; dreaming is said to dramatically affect our abilities to process information, handle stress and anxiety and a plethora of other unique outcomes. Based on the prevailing literature of many health professionals, the act and ability to dream is closely tied to our health and emotional well-being. Kopp et al. (2008) perform a meta-analysis of existing theoretical literature on the connection between dreams and health, examining the importance of dreams and dream sequences in promoting proper health, considering ...

Introduction

There are a couple of things that people should know about Borderline Personality Disorder. The term Borderline Personality Disorder or BPD was first used by clinical psychologists somewhere between the 60s and 70s to define a group of personality disorders characterized by abnormal behaviors such as impulsivity, tendencies to injure one, and tendencies to commit suicide. BPD originally referred to a cluster of more complex psychological conditions whose symptoms appeared in individuals over the age of 18 or during their early adolescent years. The objective of this paper is to identify the relevant signs and symptoms of BPD used by clinical psychologists ...

The word borderline was a common term in the 19th century used to delineate a condition that was bordering two distinct types of psychiatric conditions that were by the time broadly categorized into major groups; neurosis and psychosis (Chapman and Gratz 9). As Chapman and Gratz assert, this delineation was probably due to the fact that a limited number of patients had been observed to warrant a precise description of the disease. Findings from the researches point to the fact the Borderline Disorder could be described far much differently. Chapman and Gratz uphold that Borderline Disorder, conventionally known as Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), ...

Borderline Personality Disorder

Introduction Internet and on-line libraries offer variety of materials related the research of the borderline personality disorder (BPD). In this research paper works of Grohol, Winston, and Paris were used to address the current issues of BPD research progress. The main issues addressed in the paper are: the definition of borderline personality disorder, symptoms of the disease, current statistics of BPD, treatment, and current developments regarding new treatment methods. 1. Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Definition and Background In accordance with National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (NCCMH) (2009) research, the term “borderline personality disorder” was first ...

Borderline Personality Disorder: Case Study

Karen’s Case

Karen was admitted in the intensive care unit of West Raymond medical Center after she knowingly took an overdose of sedatives in addition to alcohol in a suicide attempt following a disagreement with her man.

Consequently, the 32-year old single, unemployed woman lost consciousness which meant that she had to inevitably spend three days in the hospital. While still in the hospital the doctors never wanted to discharge her until when they were convinced that she was under the care of a psychotherapist. Karen’s psychotherapist was, however, reluctant to respond to Karen’s calls concerning her discharge citing ...

Financial Costs of the war

The most significant analysis of costs incurred as a result of the Iraq war is that compiled by Professor Stiglitz, a Nobel prize winning economist from Columbia University, and Linda Bilmes, who is a budget expert from Harvard. However, this study is still controversial as it estimates that costs could ultimately reach $3 trillion ($3,000 billion or £1500 billion).

Stiglitz says the figure is so large because it includes costs that official estimates do not, such as the cost of the lifetime medical care of the 65,000 injured American service personnel. He also says that 100,000 of the 750, ...