Feb
02
2011
New research requires your input – are you able to help?
Are you interested in taking part in a study looking at the experience of recovery for people with borderline personality disorder?
Victoria Green, a student in the last year of clinical psychology training at Leeds Institute of Health Sciences (Faculty of Medicine and Health/Leeds University), is undertaking a thesis on the subject and she needs your help.
You will be required to take part in a semi-structured interview that requires you to reflect on your experiences of having BPD, lasting approximately 60-90 minutes, and to fill in a short questionnaire.
If you are interested in taking part or have any further questions then please email Vicky Green, Psychologist in Clinical Training (University of Leeds) at recoverystudy@virginmedia.com
for many years….. since I was five or six, I am now forty-eight- I have been suffering with a mental illness that is hard to label properly. I am happily married with children that support me through the ups and downs. There are moments of simple clarity and moments where I feel a stranger in my own head.
I would be happy to help you with your thesis, if I indeed fit the requirements.
This is simply a contact note. I do NOT have BPD but had the misfortune to have been married in the past to a person who does. I have hands on experience therefore. Also I am now retired but am medically trained and have have consultant level surgical experience. I have created a ‘mental model’ of the human brain that is based upon the evolution of our brains/minds in the past. Personally I think that this model although simplistic in many ways actually explains BPD and other personality disorders rather better than the current purely ‘descriptive’ ones. Very happy to chit-chat if that is of any help.
HD Fairman MA. MB.BCHir.FRCS.DLO
dearV.Green,Bpd appears to answer what i have to deal with in regard to my daughter-in-law,the suggestion of medition would be met with violence.I am english with an english wife how-ever as my wife has inherited asian looks from a army family back ground an english officer married a gura woman 100 years ago. Therefore we are viewed as bad people no matter what good deeds we do.Our grandson is not allow any contact with ourselfes or half his family.It is complete madnest but i accept history has to repite it self ilost a lot of poeple as child in ww2 IF this can be of help or i can advise i will
Hi
Thanks v much for getting in touch – we will pass your details onto the researcher. Kind regards Ann Grain (website editor)
Hi – thanks v much for replying. We will pass your details onto the researcher. Kind regards. Ann Grain (website editor)
Hi – thanks v much for getting in touch. We will pass your details onto the researcher. Kind regards. Ann Grain (website editor)
Nao sei se ainda há tempo… mas gostaria de ajudar!
Sim penso que há tempo; passarei sua mensagem ao researcher. Ann (website editor)
Hi,
I haven’t been diagnosed with BPD, because I decided not to take the test as I did not want it on my medical record. I’m pretty sure in my own mind I have it. I have a history of anxiety and depression and have spent a couple of months in a mental hospital following a break down which was precipitated by relationship break down at work (as are all my depressive periods). Following my last break down (where I resigned and left my partner and home) I decided to take action and signed up for a years private therapy course in Holland. I have just come back this week and start a temporary teaching post next week. I guess I’m not e\able to help because I don’t have a diagnosis, but I’m keen to follow what you do and help in any way I can.
Good luck,
Janice
Thanks Janice. I will pass on your offer of help. Ann (website editor)
have bpd and am willing to help out,however im nowhere near recovery yet
I think I have BPD and I am just getting up the nerve to see someone. I think may have had since a teenager to be honest. Yes willing to take part
Thank you for offering to take part in the research – I will pass your contact details onto the researcher. Ann Grain (website editor)
i have been toled that i may have this. if i can help id love to
Hi Jenny – the deadline for this research has ended I am afraid but I will keep you in mind for any other research notifications we get. If you need any support or help please go to http://www.emergenceplus.org.uk or contact admin@emergenceplus.org.uk Emergence is a service-user support group for anyone affected by personality disorder. Ann Grain (website editor)