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Muscle dysmorphia: current insights

Muscle dysmorphia: current insights

Psychol Res Behav Manag. 2016; 9: 179–188. Published online 2016 Aug 3. doi:  [10.2147/PRBM.S97404] PMCID: PMC4977020 PMID: 27536165 David Tod,1 Christian Edwards,2 and Ieuan Cranswick1 Author information Copyright and License information Disclaimer This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Abstract Since 1997, there has been increasing research focusing on muscle dysmorphia, a condition underpinned by people’s beliefs that they have insufficient muscularity, in both the Western and non-Western medical and scientific communities. Much of this empirical interest…

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Connection Between Borderline Personality Disorder and Bulimia

Connection Between Borderline Personality Disorder and Bulimia

  February 15, 2017 Contributor: Camille Williams, MA, LCPC, Eating Disorder Specialist at Timberline Knolls Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is characterized by intense emotions, impulsivity, and experiencing life in extremes. Individuals with BPD have a difficult time managing their emotions effectively because of the intensity of the emotions experienced. Emotions can influence the use of impulsive behaviors as a way of coping and because of the lack of rational cognition accessible. This can look like a rollercoaster life with emotions…

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Culture and Mental Illness

Culture and Mental Illness

  See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270762975   Conference Paper · December 2014 DOI:  10.13140/2.1.1117.4724     Chittaranjan Subudhi Central University of Tamil Nadu   Available from: Chittaranjan Subudhi Retrieved on: 10 September 2016       ABSTRACT: The global burden of mental illness is high and opportunities for promoting mental health care are neglected issues in most parts of the world. Though many of the affected people come from the deprived sections of society…

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Preventive Psychiatric Admission for Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder: A Pilot Study

Preventive Psychiatric Admission for Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder: A Pilot Study

  Bauke Koekkoek, RN, CNS, René van der Snoek, RN, CNS, Kees Oosterwijk, MD, and Berno van Meijel, RN, PhD   PURPOSE. The purpose of this study was to establish the preliminary effects of preventive psychiatric admission of patients with severe borderline personality disorder (BPD) on the rate of agreement over treatment, patient service use, and patient views on the intervention. DESIGN AND METHODS. A retrospective pre-post test design with quantitative measures and qualitative interviews was used. FINDINGS. Agreement over…

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