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Mental illness shouldn’t be a dirty secret
The real issue I had was with the judgement from people. Not because they were trying to be cruel, but because they genuinely did not understand. Mental illness shouldn’t be a dirty secret by NAME WITHHELD Last updated 05:00 06/08/2015 As someone who has experienced mental illness off and on for the past 10 years and had an experience of acute mental illness, especially over the past two years, I feel I can say that discrimination is a problem in New Zealand. Personally, I think most of the problem is the lack of education around it. Other people don’t know enough about mental illness. Often what they ‘think they know’…
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Advocacy needed for borderline personality disorder
Although BPD was just as frequent, impairing and lethal — if not more — as bipolar disorder, it receives a tenth of the research funding. Advocacy needed for borderline personality disorder Dane Wanniarachige, Windsor, Ont. August 4, 2015 Experts say that lack of advocacy for patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) means it garners scant attention or resources and insufficient funding for research. One family says these shortfalls cost them their daughter’s life. Four years after her first suicide attempt Sasha Menu Courey was finally diagnosed with BPD and given treatment. People with BPD have poor ability to regulate their emotions, which leads to amplification of all feelings — anger,…
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When Hope is Not Enough, Second Edition now available as PDF
When Hope is Not Enough, Second Edition is now available from the publisher’s website in a PDF format. You can purchase this format by clicking here. No related posts.
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Top Five Books For Partners of People with Borderline Personality Disorder (#BPD) – Kindle Edition
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When Hope is Not Enough, Second Edition available in Kindle Store
When Hope is Not Enough, Second Edition is now available for the Kindle! It should be available in printed form on Amazon and other retailers shortly! No related posts.
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Super Exciting News! When Hope is Not Enough, Second Edition is out!
After 7 years of working and reworking the approach, tools and skills, When Hope is Not Enough, Second Edition is out! Currently, it is available in paperback from the publisher’s site: When Hope is Not Enough, Second Edition Paperback It is also available in downloadable eBook format (PDF): When Hope is Not Enough, Second Edition eBook (PDF) The new edition is almost an entirely new book. While the skills from the first edition are still there, they have been enhanced, modified and structured more fully. The first edition was 185 pages long. The second edition is 252 pages. That’s 36% larger. Why is it so much longer? I included several…