{"id":7784,"date":"2011-07-30T08:16:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T15:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humintell.com\/?p=7784"},"modified":"2011-09-18T16:52:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T23:52:00","slug":"emotional-distress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/2011\/07\/emotional-distress\/","title":{"rendered":"Emotional Distress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-8985\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/2011\/07\/emotional-distress\/theatrical-portrait-of-a-styled-sorrow-actress-shot-in-studio\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8985\" title=\"Theatrical portrait of a styled sorrow actress. Shot in studio.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/emotional-distress-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/emotional-distress-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/emotional-distress-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>People with borderline personality disorders, better known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.com\/health\/borderline-personality-disorder\/DS00442\">BPD, <\/a>show a deficiency in emotion regulation skills.<\/p>\n<p>That might not sound like news but imagine getting so frustrated you wanted to smash your computer or scream really loud.\u00a0 If that did not suffice, would you hurt yourself or would you just let out a sigh of discontent and continue on with your day? People with BPD can\u2019t always control their emotions and might cut themselves or cause harm to their bodies to deal with heavy emotional situations.<\/p>\n<p>An important question to ask is why do they do this?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biologynews.net\/archives\/2010\/08\/30\/hurts_so_good_neural_clues_to_the_calming_effects_of_selfharm.html\"><em>Biology News Net<\/em><\/a> has the answer.\u00a0 They report that people with BPD show high rates of self-injurious behavior, which helps them to reduce negative emotional states. This all comes from a 2003 study conducted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www4.ncsu.edu\/~jlnietfe\/index.html\">John Nietfeld<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nietfeld and his research team studied the effects of emotional and thermal stimuli in people with and without borderline personality disorder.\u00a0 They used picture stimuli to induce either a negative, positive or neutral affect and thermal stimuli to induce heat pain or warmth perception.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"www.ikpp.si\/att\/180\/SELF-R~1.PDF\">study <\/a>found that patients with BPD had heightened activation of limbic circuitry in response to evocative pictures.\u00a0 Amygdala stimulation also correlated with self-reported deficits in emotion regulation.\u00a0 However, the thermal stimulus inhibited the activation of the amygdala in these patients and also in healthy controls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese data are consistent with the hypothesis that physically painful stimuli provide some relief from emotional distress for some patients with borderline personality disorder because they paradoxically inhibit brain regions involved in emotion.\u00a0 This process may help them to compensate for deficient emotional regulation mechanisms,\u201d states Dr. John Krystal, editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com\/\"><em>Biological Psychiatry<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting thought, why is it that humans can override one pain with another?<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts on this study?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People with borderline personality disorders, better known as BPD, show a deficiency in emotion regulation skills. That might not sound like news but imagine getting so frustrated you wanted to smash your computer or scream really loud.\u00a0 If that did not suffice, would you hurt yourself or would you just let out a sigh of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotion","category-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7784"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7802,"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7784\/revisions\/7802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}