Jan 30 2009
“Borderline News” & “Time To Change”
A really useful site that I trawl for news relating to Borderline Personality Disorder is David Oliver’s “Borderline News” which he describes as “Your One Stop Source For Information On Borderline Personality Disorder.” It is an aggregation of articles that he has come across. He is quite unapologetic that many of the stories do seem to be negative - put it this way, apart from my blog, how many positive BPD articles have you read recently? - but, to his credit, he does usually include at least one link each week to a scientific or academic paper on some aspect of the subject.
What does this tell us? It is hard to find uplifting stories about BPD and probably fairly tough to get them published in the first place and that there is some ongoing research on BPD but much of it seems to be within the wider social remit of “mental health” issues.
The latest campaign “Time To Change” with the avowed intent to inspire people to work together to end the discrimination surrounding mental health, is a breath of fresh air. “Time To Change” is a programme of 35 projects is led by Mental Health Media, Mind, and Rethink, funded with £16m from the Big Lottery Fund and £2m from Comic Relief, and evaluated by the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College, London.
There are links on challenging discrimination: how to do it, how to get involved, what others are doing, support, experience and views. With a bit of luck, their social networking badge is below:
I, for one, will be finding out how I can “do my bit.” I urge you all to follow suit.
Links:
Borderline News
http://www.borderlinecentral.com/borderlinenews.shtml
Time to change
http://www.time-to-change.org.uk/
