by BPD News | Nov 8, 2015
For most of her 30 years, Beth McMullen has lived amidst a hectic swirl of emotional turmoil. As a woman living with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), Ms McMullen’s life has involved riding a rollercoaster of emotions — a struggle that ebbs and flows even...
by BPD News | Oct 18, 2015
Recommendations made in two damning reports into Australia’s ability to treat patients with borderline personality disorder (BDP) have been ignored for two years by state and federal governments. The reports detailed an illness that poses serious challenges to...
by BPD News | Oct 12, 2015
Researcher and academic Sonia Neale, 45, is the recipient of SANE Australia’s inaugural 2014 Barbara Hocking Fellowship. The fellowship promotes better mental health through public understanding of mental illness. Sonia recently travelled to the USA, UK and Canada to...
by BPD News | Sep 30, 2015
Its very name means those diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) can face criticism and families can also be stigmatised. The word ‘borderline’ tends to make many think there is not really anything wrong with someone diagnosed with BPD and an...
by BPD News | Sep 19, 2015
ONLINE help could reduce the number of rural young people taking their own lives by giving them more support and greater access to mental health services, a science media briefing has heard. Dr Jane Burns from the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre said...
