No psychotropic drug is specifically licensed for the management of emotionally unstable borderline personality disorder. Prescribing ‘off‐label’ places additional responsibilities on the prescriber and may increase liability if there are adverse effects. This case report describes a patient with borderline personality disorder who was started on zuclopenthixol decanoate with successful outcome in terms of reducing self‐harming behaviour and impulsivity.
Emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD) has become a public health challenge due to its prevalence, cost to health care services and comorbidities. Prescribers are faced with a clinical conundrum when offering medication to patients with EUPD due to the risk of deliberate overdose. Here, the authors analyse clinicians’ views and experiences pertaining to prescribing medications for EUPD within the context of the NICE guidelines, with resulting messages to enable positive change in future clinical guidelines and policies.
This research paper seeks to study the juxtaposition of antithetical forces in the text The Fault in Our Stars penned down by John Green. The research centers on the characters' quest for finding an answer to the meaninglessness, attempts for filling the void, facticity, existential angst, and ultimate despair in the framework of the philosophy of 'Existentialism' posited by Jean-Paul Sartre. All the major characters in the novel are cancer patients, living a dismal and distressing life under the looming shadow of death. In an existential vein, the protagonists set out on a journey of self-exploration and choose to eke out a momentary optimism from their pessimistic situations. While battling with the terminal disease, Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters engage in an emotional liaison that becomes a redeeming force in their traumatized existence. This research will study how love becomes a life force, an antithetical force juxtaposed with death and devastation. The transience becomes an impetus of change from despair to fulfillment as the protagonists experience infinity in an ephemeral togetherness and find a meaning of life in empathy and love.
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