The North Staffs Personality Disorder Service User Network’s Newsletter is now available. Written and produced by service users, the newsletter’s aim is to be useful and inspiring for service users, carers and those who work with people with PD. The lead story opens the debate on the PD label – does it help, provide hope [...]
While mental health is the focus of one day in October (10th), Emergence has chosen the remaining 30 to create awareness of personality disorder and raise much needed funds to continue to educate and fight the stigma associated with this poorly understood mental health condition. The Emergence Fundraising Month, called Open the Parachute, will include [...]
An action packed day awaits the 150 delegates* attending Emergence’s first Open Day on Friday July 8. The day will start with a keynote presentation from Meredith Vivian OBE, Emergence’s newest recruit. For many years Meredith was Deputy Director of Mental Health Care Pathways at the Department of Health. This will be followed with a [...]
Dr Marsha Linehan, a leading US expert on Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and founder of an effective therapy treatment for the disorder Dialectal Behaviour Therapy (DBT), has ‘come out’ to reveal her own struggle with BPD in the New York Times (June 23, 2011) .
Personality disorders manifest themselves in a variety of ways and there is also debate about the extent to which these conditions can be treated. In the December 2010 issue of Mental Health Review Journal, Lord Adebowale (CEO of Turning Point UK) debates the definition of personality disorder and considers the stigma that this diagnosis can [...]
The national survey into attitudes towards mental illness has been published by SHIFT, the initiative to tackle stigma and discrimination surrounding mental health issues in England.
Time to Change is a partnership of organisations that has come together to combat the stigma and discrimination that exists around mental health.