Borderline personality disorder is often the default diagnosis for people who check themselves into hospitals voluntarily, and thus are institutionalized. However, a properly-trained clinician knows that it is often over-diagnosed.
The Importance of Psychoeducation: Insights and Reflections from Mary Zanarini
The source for the above clip is excerpted from this blog post from the Web site BPDVideo.Com. The full video is captioned; I just couldn’t get it to work on any of my devices when I found it two years ago.
The Importance of An Accurate Diagnosis, Why Mary Avoided The Word “Borderline” In Naming Her Laboratory, and What’s Shakin’ At McLean…
However, I think Mary Zanarini should retire, and here’s why…
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Me: Do you know any radiologists?
Neurologist: [maĩ ˈfɑˈːɾðɝ ɪ̃n l̴ɔːː]
She drew out the /ɔ/ phone for three seconds in exasperation.I asked her which personality d/o is the most interesting to see.
/ˈboəɹɾ.dʰɝl̴aiːːə̃n/I remembered a young woman interact who took one of the chips lens broken glasses and cut herself deeply on the rectus femoris.
I tried to get her to give me back the lens. She became very angry. I drank two cups of tap water in three hours and went back to explain why. She became less Fearful as I explain I only have one glasses pair and one functioning eye.
She hand me back the shard. I found a roll of surgical tape in the left side of the 1E unit and tape the shard back to the glass lens right. The lens fell out. Another patient saw me struggling, and held the frame while I put it in from the back of the glasses. It stayed then.
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