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Wow! THIS took balls! "Miami Dolphins star has borderline personality disorder "

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Tuesday, August 2, 2011 10:38 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


I can't even conceive of how much courage it took to do this; he's gotta know what anyone who only knows "a bit" about BPD, or who has been the victim of someone with it, is thinking!
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Miami Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshall is known as much for his headline-grabbing troubles off the field as he is for his standout play on it.

If he has his way, he's about to be famous for something else entirely.

In a news conference on Sunday, Marshall told reporters that he suffers from borderline personality disorder, or BPD, a mental illness marked by intense anger, impulsivity, and turbulent interpersonal relationships.

The 27-year-old wide receiver -- who received his diagnosis this spring, after seeking treatment at McLean Hospital, in Belmont, Massachusetts -- told reporters he wants to be the "face" of BPD.

"My purpose moving forward is to raise awareness of this disorder -- how it not only affects the patient but the families and the people in the community," he said.

Marshall certainly has his work cut out for him. Although an estimated 2% of U.S. adults are affected by the disorder, it remains poorly understood, even among mental health professionals. That's partly because the symptoms of BPD can look a lot like those of other mental illnesses, such as bipolar disorder, depression, and schizophrenia.

(The term "borderline," in fact, arose because psychiatrists originally conceived of BPD as occupying the border between psychosis and neurosis, two broad categories of mental illness that aren't as widely used today.)

BPD can be especially difficult to identify and diagnose because some of the disorder's hallmarks -- including mood swings and intense fears of abandonment -- are, in less severe forms, considered to be "normal" human emotions and behavior, says Chris Cargile, M.D., a psychiatrist at the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, in Bryan.

"Most of the things we talk about in personality disorders we see in everybody," says Cargile, who has not treated Marshall and cannot comment on the specifics of his case. "The reason we have the word 'disorder' is when those things become problematic. It's when the intensity level rises to the point where you can't hold a relationship together for more than a few hours or days, because you can't trust anybody."

BPD often manifests in "severe eruptions of depression," distrust of other people that verges on paranoia, and "frantic" efforts to avoid abandonment, Cargile says.

Suicidal threats and attempts are common; the completed suicide rate in people with BPD is as high as 10%, according to a review of the disorder, published in May in the New England Journal of Medicine, that coincidentally was written by John Gunderson, M.D., a psychiatrist at McLean Hospital who has spoken with Marshall about his condition.

Underlying much of this volatile behavior are an unstable self-image and a pattern of "black-and-white" thinking, Gunderson writes, which can lead to sudden, dramatic switches between feelings of "idealization" and "devaluation" regarding others.

As Patricia Junquera, M.D., an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, puts it, "It's either all or nothing. There are no grays: 'If you're not going to be with me, you're not going to be with anybody.' They have a lot of security issues that other people might have, but deal with them differently."

During his press conference, Marshall alluded to the fact that his illness may have played a role in some of his high-profile off-the-field problems, including, most notably, a domestic dispute in April in which Marshall's wife, Michi Nogami-Marshall, was arrested and charged with stabbing Marshall with a kitchen knife.

(On Sunday, Marshall defended his wife and denied press reports about the incident without providing specifics.)

BPD usually has its roots in early childhood abuse, abandonment, and neglect, and it manifests in poor coping techniques. People with BPD "just don't know how to deal with their feelings," says Junquera, who has not treated Marshall.

Men and women with BPD often deal with strong emotions in different ways, she adds. Men represent about one-quarter of all people with BPD, and their inability to manage their feelings sometimes manifests as violence and drug and alcohol abuse.

Women, on the other hand, tend to turn their feelings on themselves, cutting themselves repeatedly or threatening to kill themselves if they believe someone's going to leave them, she says.

BPD can be very difficult to treat. The remission rate is extremely high, and only about 25% of people with the diagnosis manage to remain employed full-time, according to Gunderson's review.

Unlike schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression, BPD (and many other personality disorders) tend not to respond to medications, although doctors do sometimes prescribe antidepressants, atypical antipsychotic drugs, and mood stabilizers to BPD patients. Instead, experts tend to rely on talk therapy that stresses how to cope with the feelings of abandonment and other symptoms of the disorder.

"You can treat some symptoms with medications, but the way to truly improve...functioning is with psychotherapy," Cargile says.

Marshall said he underwent both individual and group therapy at McLean, and seems optimistic about his own prognosis.

"I am not saying that I am cured," Marshall told reporters during the news conference. "What I am saying today is that I am confident today that with the skills that I have learned and the intensity of the program that I went through that I am in a position where I can live an effective and healthy life." http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/08/02/miami.dolphin.borderline.personal
ity/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
found this a fairly good article on the subject (and everything it mentions, I experienced with Jo), except one of the links in the middle was "Health.com: Subtle signs of bipolar disorder" -- WTF??? Bipolar is a MOOD DISORDER having nothing to do with BPD, which is a PERSONALITY DISORDER!

Leaving that aside, tho', I think this guy is showing REAL balls--I confess, I don't give a shit who knows I'm bipolar, but if I was borderline, I'd be scared to admit it. From this day forward I will NEVER forget the name Brandon Marshall, and might actually start watching football again (which I stopped about twenty years ago), if the Dolphins are on, so I can cheer him on. "Impressed" doesn't even come close!

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Tuesday, August 2, 2011 11:21 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg


Do you enjoy posting threads that noone cares about? Just wondering. I mean, how many of your posts are at "0"?

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies"



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Tuesday, August 2, 2011 11:38 AM

BYTEMITE


This one's at two.

It's better than endless economy talks (which yeah, I guess I'm guilty of contributing to now)... I was surprised to find myself interested by Sig and Geezer's discussion about tax rates though.

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Tuesday, August 2, 2011 1:53 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
Do you enjoy posting threads that noone cares about? Just wondering. I mean, how many of your posts are at "0"?

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies"





Seems obvious that YOU care about this one, Wulfie.

Or do you make a habit of posting about things you have no interest in posting about, just to show us how "the grown ups" do it? Maybe you're learning from Rappy, who responds time after time after time how it's so completely not worth wasting his time to respond here, and yet is completely unable to stop responding, even if it's just to point out how he refuses to respond.

You and Rappy remind me of small children, wagging your fingers around in the faces of others while saying "Not touching you... I'm not touching you!..." (Difference being, of course, Rappy LOVES touching young children!)

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

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Wednesday, August 3, 2011 6:10 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Eh, I don't care what Wulf--or Raptor or anyone else--think of what I post. I put up stuff I think might be of interest or that interest ME, and quite a few of them take off. Anything he or his ilk have to say is totally unimportant.

The giggle is that Kane has posted so MANY ridiculous posts having nothing to do with ANYTHING that his chastizng me is absolutely hysterical. Remember all the "Olbermann is an ass" type stuff he put up? And the many, many posts he's put up about his chick? This, on the other hand, IS a real world event which means a lot to millions of people in the mental-health community.

I don't give a whether anyone responds or not, Wulf. Long ago someone remarked that if we didn't like the posts that were put up, we should put up some of our OWN. I've gone by that ever since, looking for stuff people might like discussing, and contrary to what you wrote, a lot of my posts not only catch on, they go on for a long, long time.

This event is important; I think it's great that so many "famous" people of all walks of life are standing up and saying "I have ____" and spending some of their time and energy to battle what they experience. It helps all others with whatever the disease/disorder might be, and I think that's cool. Especially in this case!

Mike, the visual of that last sentence made me giggle. I can just SEE it, it fits so well!


Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off



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Thursday, August 4, 2011 1:24 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht


I care about it. That's really brave of him. I'm noticing more people admitting to having borderline lately (I think the name borderline is weird and doesn't tell anyone anything about the disorder, but oh well I'm not in charge). It is less common in men than in women so its extra brave of him to tell folk. Borderline can really be a tough one. I support the idea of taking it off the personality disorder list and classifying it differently because pretty much all of those who come to us at work with borderline had early childhood trauma that caused it to manifest, rather than it being more innate. Personality disorders, true ones, are seen as innate flaws, sure sometimes the environment can bring them out more, but usually if someone has an actual personality disorder signs are there from the earliest days, it doesn't just suddenly appear, like in schizotypal personality disorder, if you have it you have it from the start or very nearly. So I think borderline should probably be taken off the personality disorder list.

I'm not as brave as you Niki. I'm very selective about who I tell my diagnosis to because people have a lot of ideas about what it is and what it isn't and I have a less common subtype and so if I tell people they think things that aren't accurate to my case. Anyways some people really look to celebrities and famous people, thinking that if they have differences and they can succede then the everyman can strive for that too. I'm not the kind of person who really cares so much, but I can see the value in it to give those sorts positivity in their own challenges.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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