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 [...]
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Understanding different types of emotional distress: an important area of mental health that is getting increasingly recognised is the way people express various forms of emotional distress. It can cause various behaviours: People harm themselves, for example by cutting their arms Drinking unsafe amounts of alcohol Taking illegal drugs regularly, excessively or irresponsibly Misusing prescribed [...]
New book: ‘Treating Personality Disorder – creating robust services for people with complex mental health needs’. Edited by Naomi Murphy and Des McVey.
This short new film examines how new policy and guidelines are helping to improve treatment and management of people with personality disorder.
Emergence are gathering people’s stories about what it is really like to have a “borderline personality”, to make into a new book that will help improve understanding and reduce stigma.
This book considers personality disorders and how they are treated within the institutional context of prisons and hospitals and offers practical guidance on assessment, formulation and integrated treatment planning.
This document provides ten basic facts about Personality Disorder.