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Topic Tuesday Tonight closed - BPD: Debunking the myths

CherryBombSenior Contributor12 June 2015, 7:30 pm AEST

Topic Tuesday Tonight closed - BPD: Debunking the myths

BPD is a mental illness that is often misundertood, and burdened with heavy stigma. Quite often people place it in the 'too hard' basket labelling the disorder as impossible to treat. This Topic Tuesday we want to dubunk myths just like these.

For this month's session, I'm pleased to announce that will have Sonia Neale, the SANE ricipient of the Hocking Fellowship, joining us to talk about BPD. Sonia has a wealth of knowledge, not only from professional expertise and her own resarch on BPD, but she also brings her own lived experience that informs her approach to work. She is a great example of the knowledge and expertise that exists within lived experiences.

So come along this Tuesday 7-9pm AEST to help us debunk the myths and reveal the facts about BPD.

Click like if you're going to be there!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9DE_78jN1Y

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JacquesSenior Contributor16 June 2015, 8:40 pm AEST

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Thank you @CherryBomb

i will be careful not to read into what i have learned about mental health, maybe one day i will be able to seek help for my problems, and thanyou for setting this up, i have really enjoyed tonight and i hope you are able on the SANE forums to host more of them.

Thankyou @CherryBomb, @Raven, @BlueButterfly50, @PeppiPatty @astrengthinever and everyone else, you have all given me plenty to think about and look into, i and thankyou for the youtube links too, will watch them tomorrow.

Take Care All

Jacques

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astrengthineverSenior Contributor16 June 2015, 8:41 pm AEST

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Thank you and DBT is a help, but she only takes what she wants from it. Apparently mindfulness is only for old people 😉 . What I have found incredibly helpful is learning many of the DBT skill for me. It has helped me learn a language in which I can communicate so much better with her. Perhaps skills every parent should learn for any teenager. I have also learnt to understand how she really feels. And accept her feelings as her genuine feelings and not brush them off as non sense. Basically allow her to feel them. I was brought up in a very hard love family and thus was how I thought I should bring her up. Only now am I learning that this; for my darling, caring and highly emotive daughter, is the worst thing I could have done. BUT it is never to late to change and move forward. I love her for accepting my faults and embracing my efforts.

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BlueButterfly50Senior Contributor16 June 2015, 8:42 pm AEST

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@Shadow

That is what Marsha Linehan is doing at the moment. Behavioural Tech is the commercial arm of her business and she is currently contacting school boards in Seattle and other places to try and get DBT skills into the classroom. And a good place to start would be primary school.

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CherryBombSenior Contributor16 June 2015, 8:44 pm AEST

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That's a really great point @BlueButterfly50 - people a very complex and they are hard to fit into a label/category. I guess another way to look at diagnoses is that that they are a name for a specific cluster of symptoms.

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BlueButterfly50Senior Contributor16 June 2015, 8:46 pm AEST

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@Crazy_Bug_Lady

Under stress we can feel really emotionally shitty. When we are in pain we can sometimes feel like a child and just want someone to validate our feelings. Nothing wrong with that. When your feelings are validated it seems to lift a weight off your shoulders and some problems can disappear just on the strength of that. Yes, BPD is real, yes it is treatable. People need to be more compassionate with other people in everyday life. We need to tune into others and see their pain. I find people with BPD are very empathic and tuned in to others. That is one of the great things about BPD is the ability to have empathy and compassion for others. It is not all bad.

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astrengthineverSenior Contributor16 June 2015, 8:47 pm AEST

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An excellent book,... My bible.

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ShadowSenior Contributor16 June 2015, 8:49 pm AEST

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That's amazing!

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CherryBombSenior Contributor16 June 2015, 8:51 pm AEST

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Ok we've only got another 10 minutes so now is the time to add your final thoughts.

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BlueButterfly50Senior Contributor16 June 2015, 8:51 pm AEST

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@astrengthinever

I spent a weekend with Valerie in New York as part of my Fellowhsip. It was a Family Survival Skills workshop based on the book. Valerie kindly let me sit in for the two days. She really manages to get people to understand the importance of learning the neurobiology, the fact that it is not the parents fault, and the fact that validation, validation and validation is the most effective communication.

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-karma-Senior Contributor16 June 2015, 8:54 pm AEST

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Can I ask please....

what are your observations of children (possibly no adults, or adolescents) with a personality disorder diagnosis, and the relationship with mothers that (may) also have PD?

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