Women with borderline personality disorder and pathophilia: understanding causes of pandemic diffusion of transmissible diseases through samos syndrome
| Autor: | C. G. Lazzari, M. Rabottini |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Zdroj: | European Psychiatry, Vol 67, Pp S807-S808 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0924-9338 1778-3585 |
| DOI: | 10.1192/j.eurpsy.2024.1683 |
| Popis: | Introduction When faced with perilous transmittable infections, individuals defend themselves or welcome them, such as the Samos Syndrome, a pathophilia (people attracted by illnesses). As borderline personality disorder (BPD), found in Samos Syndrome, becomes more common, so will people who reject primary protection from transmittable diseases and health behaviour as their choices. Pandemics would sinisterly draw pathophilies and persons with borderline personality disorder who migh surf pandemics risk as a parasuicidal behaviour. Objectives To investigate why pandemics (HIV, COVID-19) cannot be stopped. We have conducted a long-term assessment of HIV-discordant couples where a female partner, HIV-negative, voluntarily chooses to decline any prevention during stable and consensual relationships with HIV+ve partners. We also explored sociodemographic data that could explain health behaviours and condom use in HIV serodiscordant couples at risk of pandemic diffusion, those where one of the partners, usually male, already has a transmissible disease. Methods We used a mix of naturalistic and ethnographic approaches to understand the dynamics of Samos Syndrome. We also utilised a questionnaire to extract salient points in the sexual prevention of HIV infection. We assessed 475 HIV-serodiscordant couples. Results Pathophilia is defined as an excessive, abnormal desire to be sick, also known as nosophilia, from the Greek word ‘pathos’ indicating illness and ‘philia’, meaning attraction. Women diagnosed with BPD can become high diffusers during pandemics of transmissible diseases as suffering from pathophila, a form of parasuicidal behaviour. In the couples assessed, when the HIV-negative woman comes from a socially disadvantaged family, the couple uses condoms in 87% of cases (p |
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