Two Key Targets for Easing Borderline Personality Disorder
Though awareness is increasing and stigma decreasing, BPD often is unrecognized and may be associated with great suffering
Borderline Personality Disorder, and Why Young People are Falling Through the Cracks
TW: Discussion of suicide and self-harm The opening quote from this ABC News article by Sarah Sedghi might hit home for some readers: “Natasha Swingler has lived with complex mental illness from a young age. “I didn’t want to be seen, to be heard. I...
Borderline: Personal Experience of Borderline Personality Disorder Explored in Perth Performance by Evelyn Snook
Tanya MacNaughton of Perth Now interviews Evelyn Snook about their theater piece Borderline.
Selena Gomez Talks about Mental Health and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
“Selena Gomez, once the most followed star on Instagram and now an artist who uses her voice to raise awareness about mental health, is a month shy of turning 29. Recently, in a conversation with Vogue Australia, the singer opened up about her mental health journey and shared that she has studied Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). “I’ve studied DBT. I’ve been to four treatment centres. I think in mental health, I never understood the stigma until I went to my first treatment centre because that was years ago,” she was quoted as saying.”
What it’s Like Living with Borderline Personality Disorder
“While there are depths of despair, our compassion and our empathy is boundless. With intensity comes passion and a vast capacity for love and hope.”
Borderline personality disorder is still misunderstood and misdiagnosed, so patients turn to each other for support
Our story today comes from the Australia Broadcasting Corporation and centers around Morgan Bayer, a young woman who “spent most of her life gripped by a volatile mental disorder so misunderstood that she did not know she was a sufferer, despite years of mental health support.”
