Posted by Amelia_in_StPaul on June 18, 2009, at 1:26:19
In reply to Re: NYT Emotional Hair Trigger, Often Misread (trigger » floatingbridge, posted by Amelia_in_StPaul on June 18, 2009, at 1:22:45
thankfully commenter #58 stepped in as the voice of reason...
"I am disgusted and baffled by this article. As a clinician who works with patients with Borderline Personality Disorder, this article did nothing but reinforce stereotypes. It further stigmatizes the struggles individuals who have difficulties with emotion regulation experience. How humiliating to suggest that someone with this condition behaves like a 2 year old?
This reporter was ill-equipped to be writing this piece and and insensitive to the topics at hand. There is a significant omission in this article of another effective treatment that has empirical support called Transference Focused Psychotherapy, or TFP (Kernberg, Yeomans and Clarkin). There are currently many options for patients struggling with these difficulties and many treatment trials that offer services at reduced fees as part of federally funded research (including the clinic practicing TFP above which is based in NYC).
I hope that the public will read this article and disregard most of what is written other than the comments by informed practitioners like Dr. Linehan and Dr. Fruzzetti.
Horrified Clinician"> Man, people sure think people with BPD are the devil incarnate. I mean, god, could these questions represent extremes (and misdiagnoses or misunderstandings about what BPD does and does not entail) any more than they do? I love how the article referred to distress as a "tantrum." Um, how many people with BPD live in pain and under stress and DON'T beat their children, manipulate those around them, and rant and rave up and down the street?
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> Whew. That really is an emotional hair trigger! Yikes!
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> > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/health/16brod.html?em
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> > Fluffy article on BPD. For me, the real interest lies in the accompanying Consults comments.
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