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27June 2016

Sylvia Plath gravestone inscription: Even amidst firce flames the golden lotus can be planted

Rising Above Personality Disorder: The Creativity of Sylvia Plath

Borderline Personality Disorder, Creativity, Depression, Suicide

Credit: Jennifer Boyer Creative Commons License 2 Creativity of Writer Sylvia Plath Rises above Her Personality Disorder The powerful, incisive writing of Sylvia Plath is often overshadowed by her personal…

21December 2015

Stories of Working through Mental Illness Offer Insight to Therapists and Clients

Anxiety, Borderline Personality Disorder, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Working Through Mental Illness Psychologist Ellen Holtzman has a practice in Wakefield, Mass. and often works with clients who have anxiety. The psychologist reviews the anti-anxiety medication one client is…

21April 2015

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7 Lessons about the Nature of Mental Illness Suggested by Deliberate Airplane Crash

Borderline Personality Disorder, Depression

The co-pilot who deliberately crashed a Germanwings airplane into the French Alps in March has forced the international spotlight to focus on the difficult question of whether medical treatment for…

14April 2015

Anxiety a Sign Growth is Happening in Patients with Sense of Self Problems

Anxiety, Borderline Personality Disorder

For people with psychological problems, particularly for those who do not feel their emotions, getting better depends on coping with anxiety. Trouble spots generate anxiety and may cause patients to…

10April 2015

The Phenomenology of Severe Mental Illness

Boundary Intrusions Can Leave Patients with Overwhelming Sense of Assault

Borderline Personality Disorder

When someone with serious mental illness starts to experience an emotion, vulnerable ego boundaries may leave that person actually feeling assaulted and in distress. One clinician with more than four decades…

3April 2015

BPD: Emptiness and the Inability to Feel Emotions

Borderline Personality Disorder

Credit: Richard Croft People with sense of self issues are often unable to feel emotions. They may lack clarity about what “emotions” or “feelings” are and where in the body…

31March 2015

Emptiness a Symptom of Borderline Personality Disorder & Other Mental Disorders

Borderline Personality Disorder

Credit: Tomas Somr While the concept of “emptiness” has received increasing attention as a symptom of Borderline Personality Disorder, one Boston-area therapist concludes that this experience can be deep and…

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Rising Above Personality Disorder: The Creativity of Sylvia Plath

Stories of Working through Mental Illness Offer Insight to Therapists and Clients

7 Lessons about the Nature of Mental Illness Suggested by Deliberate Airplane Crash

Anxiety a Sign Growth is Happening in Patients with Sense of Self Problems

Boundary Intrusions Can Leave Patients with Overwhelming Sense of Assault

BPD: Emptiness and the Inability to Feel Emotions

Emptiness a Symptom of Borderline Personality Disorder & Other Mental Disorders

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