Study: DBT Interventions Effective at Reducing Suicide Attempts

Study: DBT Interventions Effective at Reducing Suicide Attempts

Three variations of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)  helped reduce suicide attempts and non-suicidal self-injury acts in a randomized clinical trial of women with borderline personality disorder who were highly suicidal, according to an article published online by...
NEABPD-Yale Conference on Borderline Personality Disorder

NEABPD-Yale Conference on Borderline Personality Disorder

On Friday, May 5, 2017 the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (NEABPD) and the Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital will be hosting their 13th annual conference: Prevention and Early Intervention for Borderline Personality Disorder The...
Think You Know About BPD?

Think You Know About BPD?

Much more attention has been paid to Borderline Personality Disorder over the past 20 years than ever before. The watershed moment came in 1993 with the publication of Marsha Linehan’s books and research papers detailing her innovative treatment for BPD, Dialectical...
Emotions Matter Art Auction

Emotions Matter Art Auction

Emotions Matters, a not-for-profit advocacy group for people impacted by Borderline Personality Disorder, is looking for submissions from people affected by BPD for their upcoming Art Show and Auction taking place on May 18th. May is also BPD Awareness Month in the...
Journey With Mental Illness Leads To New Treatment

Journey With Mental Illness Leads To New Treatment

 Marsha Linehan, director of the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics at the University of Washington was selected for the 2017 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology. Dr. Linehan won the award for her development of Dialectical Behavior Therapy...
Northern Ireland Woman’s BPD: “Suffocating”

Northern Ireland Woman’s BPD: “Suffocating”

“Overwhelming, suffocating and a roller coaster of emotions.” Those are some of the words Felicity McKee from Armagh uses to describe living with a personality disorder. The 25-year-old social anthropology student at Queen’s University received the...