by BPD News | Nov 4, 2015
Elad Nehorai started a Tumblr page “I Have a Therapist” to break down the stigma of seeking professional help with mental health issues. Thousands of shrink-goers are logging onto the blog, “I Have a Therapist,” created… by a bi-polar Brooklyn man...
by BPD News | Oct 30, 2015
Earlier this year Crystal Gonzalez, 25, started hearing voices. “I forgot that this is reality,” says Gonzalez, who lives with her mum and sister in the South Bronx, in New York City. Gonzalez has been diagnosed as bipolar, and as having a borderline personality...
by Kevin Dawkins | Oct 27, 2015
Several years ago I attended an annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in New York. I was meeting with Marsha Linehan to have lunch and to invite her to participate in a project of ours that had just been funded by the National Institute of Mental...
by BPD News | Oct 24, 2015
A study from Rhode Island Hospital has shown that a widely-used screening tool for bipolar disorder may incorrectly indicate borderline personality disorder rather than bipolar disorder. In the article that appears online ahead of print in the Journal of Clinical...
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 | 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...
