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Other than Psych Central, what are your favorite or top resources/blogs/news sites/etc. you visit regularly for this disorder or issue? Please reply to this thread and list a few of what you consider the best of the best online today.

Thank you!
DocJohn

I love the Mayo Clinic and National Library of Medicine (down the block from NIH in Bethesda, MD where I grew up) for learning about my health problems:

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/per...orders/DS00562

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/p...disorders.html

The following site has been developed by consumers in order to provide information about DBT (Dialectical Behavioural Therapy developed by Marsha Linehan). It is a terrific resource for people wanting to know more about DBT and many of the homework worksheets are provided online. I think that parts of the site are still under development:

http://www.dbtselfhelp.com/

The following is a consumer site that is run and maintained by a lady with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. She writes extensively on her experiences with the disorder and her experiences in therapy. Both from an 'objective' and 'subjective' point of view. Some of her writing has brought tears to my eyes and really helped me feel understood. Some of her writing has helped me better understand the nature of borderline personality disorder (from a charitable perspective):

http://www.toddlertime.com/dx/borderline/index.htm

She also has similar pages on other disorders if you hunt around the site a bit. Here is a kind of an index:

http://www.toddlertime.com/disorders.htm

http://www.healthyplace.com/Communit...faq_index.html

82 FAQ's on NPD. LOTS of reading and details - a must!

I found out who I am through the Meyers-Briggs temperament sorter. This website has all the tools.

http://www.keirsey.com/

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This is great info....Thanks!

TJ

I came across this site and found it helpful, and encouraging. Seems my situation is not all tha bad as it sounded from every other .. I beleive a person can want to change and fill that void with love, if power is not doing it.

http://www.sociopathicstyle.com/tools/integrity.htm

For learning to love yourself, I enjoy forthelittleonesinside.com

it is beautiful too...

This website looks at the psychodynamic understanding of the schizoid disorder and encourages recovery:

www.selfinexile.com

This website is "Your source for free self-improvement ideas, tips, and advice."
http://www.eruptingmind.com/

For BPD

DBT Marsha Linehan's strategies!

http://www.dbtselfhelp.com/html/everyday_dbt.html
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Excellent Sources!
Holmes

I like that site too. I need to explore it some more, as I hadn't noticed all the stuff on the "extras" page, and some of that is really good stuff.

I recently cme across these sites and thought it might be helpful to anyone who has BPD as I do or for a family member who is trying to understand BPD. JG+

http://www.neabpd.org/

http://www.neabpd.org/audio-pres.shtml

http://www.blogtopsites.com/post/a.j...+audio+podcast

Here's one more site which is connected to Itunes for Ipods. JG+

http://borderlinepersonality.typepad...-and-pain.html

This is a particularly good one for Schizotypal Personality Disorder.

http://schizotypaldisorder.webs.com/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001938/

A thorough, balanced description of personality disorders, their possible causes and therapy.

http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/center_index.php?id=8&cn=8

It appears from the website below that the UK now has a proactive program to help people with PD’s:

http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/

In addition to the video clips on the main page, there is another page with clips that show how life might be lived and experienced by people with other PD’s:

http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/about/pd-resources/life-at-the-extremes/

These latter “portraits” seem not particularly complimentary but seem to strive to be realistic. And they may help engender better understanding of what living with a PD can be like.

Especially for those who live in the uk, I know they have an excellent reputation MIND.

Mental Health - Mind, The Mental Health Charity - Mind

Also Rethink.

http://www.rethink.org/?gclid=CMmT9Y...FWfItAod-DcAOQ

I found the blog "stop walking on eggshells" on psychology today to be very useful when I was first coming to terms with my BPD and NPD traits. There's a good number of posts on there about how both disorders are rooted in shame.

I don't have a personality disorder diagnosis but I've not responded terrible well to treatment for depression or addiction. I know that I have plenty of NPD and BPD traits and I strongly feel that it's those that I need to address now. I'm re-starting therapy on the NHS now and I'm really hopeful about where that will go now that I've had this insight into myself and crucially now that I'm feeling more confident about speaking up about which treatments work for me and which don't.

This site offers variety of tests: similarminds.com

A good, general description:

Personality disorders as disorganisation of attachment and affect regulation

I like therapy247.com

[QUOTE=DocJohn;485951]Other than Psych Central, what are your favorite or top resources/blogs/news sites/etc. you visit regularly for this disorder or issue? Please reply to this thread and list a few of what you consider the best of the best online today.

Thank you!
DocJohn[/QUOTE

I enjoy crazyboards.org It has blogs, chatrooms, forum's and other members respond quickly. I've bailed out on 3 social obligations today. My paranoia is off the charts. I'm just waiting for someone to knock on the door and lock me up. Or kick the door down while I'm in the shower. I'd hate to be taken away naked. When I was suicidal I always wore swimming trunks when I got into a warm bath with a knife. Out of respecthe for the person finding me. Prozac, welbutrin, in vegan and 8 years cured me.

For AsPD, the best and most active forum that I've found is still here:
/r/sociopath

It's not amazing, by any means. There are a lot of people who wander onto the forum to pretend to be sociopaths for whatever reason. If you actually have AsPD, though, you can easily spot that a lot of long-time posters have it, too. It's also rather fun, because it's created a sort of game surrounding a pecking order of which users are seen as more genuine, so there's a lot of Social Darwinism going on amidst the occasional help. I'd recommend not carrying the gatekeeping and armchair diagnoses out of that forum, though.

For psychopathy, I highly recommend this blog and forum by M. E. Thomas:
https://www.sociopathworld.com/

I actually had the pleasure of talking to Thomas on a few brief occasions. This blog has also helped me explain to the people I know with just AsPD how the additional psychopathic traits differ out in the wild, since she's quite open about her severely reduced emotions and how that affects everything from political debates to sexuality. She comes across as likely a little narcissistic and histrionic, too, at times, but that's sort of to be expected.