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  1. alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    hsieh posted a topic in Psychiatric

    this thread is made to discuss and debate alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder. the point is to "think outside the box" and "stirring the pot" is also acceptable and encoraged....

  2. borderline-help: 2 different nurses/2 different approaches

    hsieh replied to gcja's topic in Psychiatric

    reply to rnwriter post 29: you say take the time to teach them. you're not going to teach a bpd anything because they aren't going to learn due to the nature of their disorder. that would be like...

  3. Contraband in psychiatric emergency rooms

    hsieh replied to psych nurse's topic in Psychiatric

    in our hosp you have to do a body search before you are allowed out onto the unit. they have to take off their clothes at the same time covering as much of their body as possible so staff can check...

  4. alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    hsieh replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    i've learned a lot. i learned it's a developmental disorder, some people take it seriously and think it's real (unlike in my part of the country), it's how a person deals with the world according to...

  5. alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    hsieh replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    i guess i have nothing else to add. i think it would be good to hear from a nurse who grew up in africa though. or any other culture where they don't have

  6. alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    hsieh replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    i understand that millions are spent on it unsuccessfully. where i work the things that have been said in this thread are not taught. we are taught they are self centered, ect. one of my co workers...

  7. alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    hsieh replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    like i said millions spent unsuccessfully on complicated treatments. let's say you have to catch a bus and you arrive at the bus station 5 minutes late and miss it. you learn that tommorrow you must...

  8. alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    hsieh replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    i have friends from africa and they impress me. the african friends i have that work at the psych hosp who all say they don't have these type of disorders in their country come from big citites and...

  9. alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    hsieh replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    i guess this thread has run out of steam. and our country spends millions to unsucessfully treat "borderline" every year. but i guess we have money to waste otherwise we

  10. Animal Cruelty ' Therapy'?

    hsieh replied to Meerkat's topic in Psychiatric

    sounds like a future serial killer to

  11. Animal Cruelty ' Therapy'?

    hsieh replied to Meerkat's topic in Psychiatric

    is there abuse in his home? some kids act out because they are immatating their parents

  12. alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    hsieh replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    one of our state hosp actually has a unit for borderline only. as for borderline being sensitive about watching video of themselves the therapist can start off by saying with your disorder you may...

  13. Animal Cruelty ' Therapy'?

    hsieh replied to Meerkat's topic in Psychiatric

    by law if you release a stalker from a psych hosp you have to let their victim know. i'm wondering if you're allowed to let the local humane society know that this guy is around? i would think this...

  14. alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    hsieh replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    the goal of mental health is to keep people in the least restrictive enviroment possible. i would think locking up borderline would delay it's development even more. the best treatment is life...

  15. alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    hsieh replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    i guess i have nothing else to add. does anybody else have alternate

  16. alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    hsieh replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    i view things as simplistic because you don't have all the time in the world. you only spend so much time alive. when people make things like borderline so detailed and in depth you are wasting time...

  17. alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    hsieh replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    no matter what you believe about bpd the tittle of the thread is alternate ways of treating bpd. one of my co workers at the hosp was beaten, starved, and molested as a child and she is perfectly...

  18. alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    hsieh replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    my views are different from most of the posts. i learned my views from my workplace. i guess the culture of my workplace views borderline as nothing more than maniputlative drama

  19. alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    hsieh replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    somebody who wants to spend money to pioneer research in alternate treatments for boderline personality disorder. now excuse me, i'm going to go watch meerkat manor on the animal planet

  20. alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    hsieh replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    if somebody said to me you can go live in a third world country for (?) six months (?) and they would take care of my expenses and responsibilities here i would jump at the opportunity. i think it...

  21. alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    hsieh replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    to rnwriter post #29 - yes that is exactly what i'm saying. and as far as making nasty comments about patients - cancer is very difficult to treat and sometimes not curable - but even though cancer...

  22. alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    hsieh replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    i think it was the last thread i did i talked about how a psychiatrist said about a revolving door boderline at the hosp "this is one of those patients you want to euathanize". somebody said well he...

  23. alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    hsieh replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    borderline people are thrown into state hospitals against their will. like i said - state hospitals are like made up third world

  24. alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    hsieh replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    i thought this thread was dedicated to alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder? i guess my views are shaped by where i work. we get the worst of the worst. we are a waiting room...

  25. alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    hsieh replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    warzprayer says they have only seen one bpd helped by traditional therapy. so to mercyteapot - why are unsuccesfull traditional therapies paid for over and over again? why not spend money on...