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...environmental misfortune is the likely culprit. Linehan has found that some borderline individuals come from homes where they were abused, some from stifling families in which children were told to go to their room if they had to cry, and some from normal families that buckled under the stress of an economic or health-care crisis and failed to provide kids with adequate validation and emotional coaching. "The child does not learn how to understand, label, regulate or tolerate emotional responses, and instead learns to oscillate between emotional inhibition and extreme emotional lability," Linehan and her colleagues write...
...intense session a few years ago, a patient told Linehan that her work stress was going to lead her to suicide. The patient said Linehan could never understand this stress because she was a successful psychologist. Suicidal borderline patients often confront and alienate therapists in this fashion; for many years, this kind of confrontation was seen as a defining characteristic of the disorder. Linehan believes that borderlines are hurting, not manipulating, but that doesn't mean she indulges them. In this particular confrontation, Linehan responded, "I do understand. I live with a similar amount of stress ... You can just imagine...
Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said that Harvard admissions will embrace the Score Choice policy and he believes that it will reduce stress among applicants...
...think one of the difficult parts of this policy is that it is shining more light on testing and that doesn’t reduce stress,” said University of Pennsylvania Dean of Admissions Eric J. Furda. “This is an unfortunate consequence of Score Choice by putting testing on front page of the newspaper...
...airport's notoriously sticky-fingered baggage handlers. It was a small but telling sign that Iraq is indeed entering a new phase, not just in troop levels and casualty counts but also in smaller areas of security. Foreign reporters like me who return to the country can now stress out more about baggage than about roadside bombs on the way home from the airport. (For more travel tips and stories visit time.com/travel.)...