A Breakthrough for Borderline Personalities: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Proves EffectivePersonality DisordersBy Promises Behavioral HealthMay 10, 2011About thirty years ago a professor at the University of Washington was working with suicidal women, many of whom were borderline personalities. This group is notoriously difficult to treat. They usually have not just one but a large number of problems, such as self-injury behaviors, substance abuse and eating disorders, that “travel” with their personality…
Recognizing Stages of Alcoholism Helps Promote Awareness and Treatment of the DiseaseAlcoholismBy Promises Behavioral HealthMay 10, 2011Those suffering from alcoholism, suffer from a disease. Friends and family will tell you that the person they once knew is no longer the same person. Oftentimes, loved ones don’t even recognize the person sitting in front of them anymore because alcohol changes people. It can make some people angry and argumentative – even violent.…
Spring Births May Increase Chances of Developing AnorexiaEating DisordersBy Promises Behavioral HealthMay 10, 2011A new study has found that anorexia nervosa, a serious eating disorder that can result in death, is more common among people born in spring months. Researchers from Oxford University said their study, the largest to date, provides clear evidence of a “season of birth” effect in anorexia.
