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 [...]
Emergence, the national service user-led organisation which support everyone affected by personality disorder, is holding its first ever Open Day on July 8. The day is for anyone interested in becoming involved with Emergence, finding out about the work they do, looking for new employment opportunities or interested in exploring how the organisation can support [...]
The Government’s National Personality Disorder Programme – past, present and future – is the subject of a plenary session at this year’s BIGSPD (British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder) on Friday March 25 at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Speaking are Nick Benefield, Rex Haigh, Nick Joseph, Kath Lovell and Lisa Wilson. [...]
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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 [...]
“Back from the Edge” is a 48-minute documentary film produced by the Peabody Award-winning Lichtenstein Creative Media. The documentary can be found on the Emergence Facebook page. The documentary claims to be the first to feature people who have recovered from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), along with five experts in the field : Wayne Fenton, [...]
Emergence and Tate Modern are hosting this event to begin to explore how to demonstrate the immense value of the work that we do.