Comments on: Push for Borderline Personality Disorder specialised unit rejected by South Australian Government http://www.newsinmind.com/general-news/push-for-borderline-personality-disorder-specialised-unit-rejected-by-south-australian-government Sat, 05 Sep 2015 02:18:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.1 By: Abby robette http://www.newsinmind.com/general-news/push-for-borderline-personality-disorder-specialised-unit-rejected-by-south-australian-government#comment-248361 Sat, 22 Nov 2014 14:35:50 +0000 http://www.newsinmind.com/?p=5383#comment-248361 There is no clear evidence to support anything more than crisis admission for people with Borderline personality disorder, it just increases dependence on services and rescuers and often makes the problem worse. BPD isn’t a mental illness, it’s a personality disorder usually secondary to significant childhood trauma – it does respond to consistency and good quality psychological input so maybe well trained PD teams are more useful than a ‘unit’.

Abby

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