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Opening – BPD Awareness Week 2019
October 1st to 7th 2019 is BPD Awareness Week
Don’t miss the Opening:
Keynote speaker is Professor Anthony Bateman, a world expert on Mentalization and, of course, an expert in BPD!
Tuesday 1st October, 5:30pm
August 2019 Sanctuary Meeting – Dr Lisa Chantler, Bridge Consulting
Dr Lisa Chantler (a psychologist from Bridge Consulting) ran a Q&A session at our August meeting .
Webinar: The Impact of Suicidality on Family and Friends
On Thursday 25 July 2019, a webinar from NEA.BPD for family members who have experienced, witnessed or learned about their loved one’s suicide attempt and may have increased distress, grief, overwhelming worry or fear about their loved one’s safety, increased alertness or hypervigilance, and uncertainty about how to respond to their loved one’s behaviour.
Family members often find themselves anticipating the next crisis, without a chance to recover or process the previous one.
The Special Guest presenter is Dr. Luciana Payne, Ph.D, a Clinical Psychologist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, USA
Understanding and Helping Loved Ones with BPD – Dr Robin L. Kissell
Dr. Robin L. Kissell MD is the Director of the Borderline Personality Disorder Initiative, Semel Institute, UCLA.
At our March meeting, we listened to a recording of her excellent talk:
‘Understanding and Helping Loved Ones with Borderline Personality Disorder’
February 2019 Sanctuary Meeting – Kristy Acres
Kristy Acres who spoke about carer inclusion in hospital emergency departments.
January 2019 Sanctuary Meeting – Dan Schmidt, Headspace
Headspace run the Youth Early Psychosis Program (YEPP), an early intervention service where clinicians can visit someone at home or in the ED.
November 2018 Sanctuary Meeting – Just Us
Video Educational Session
Emerging BPD and Youth Working Group
Floorplan of the new BPD Centre on Greenhill Rd
October 2018 Sanctuary Meeting – Kirsty Burns
Kirsty Burns works in the Short stay Unit (Mental Health) at Flinders Medical Centre . She explained what happens in the Emergency Department when we take our family member there, who gets to see them to assess them and how do they get to see a psychiatrist, if at all. To help us understand how the system works and whether our expectations are unrealistic to fit in with hospital protocol and reduce some of the frustrations we experience.
BPD Awareness Week 2018
BPD Awareness Week 2018 ran from October 1st to 7th in Australia.
The Know BPD, NO Stigma campaign used a strength-based approach to change the narrative around the words Borderline Personality Disorder.
Listen again to the recorded presentations
Webinar: BPD and Families, what’s the connection – Part 2 – Recording
Part 2 of the NEA's webinar about the Family Connections® course and how it can help. This was broadcast on-line on 5 December 2018. Here is a recording of the webinar The panel discussion featured Cassie Choo, person with lived experience of BPD, Carissa Wright, BPD...
Webinar: BPD and Families, what’s the connection – Part 1 – Recording
For BPD Awareness Week, a webinar featuring our member Liz and her son Jake talking about the Family Connections® course and how it has helped them. Here is a recording of the Webinar BPD Affects The Whole Family When a loved one has borderline...
Opening Event – BPD Awareness Week 2018
The Opening Event of BPD Awareness Week 2018 on Wednesday 3rd October 2018
Opened by SA Minister of Health Stephen Wade MLC and addressed by Tammy Franks, Greens MLC. Lived experience advocates Aaron and Tanya spoke about BPD and their paths to recovery.
September 2018 Sanctuary Meeting – What makes caring for BPD loved ones unique?
What makes caring for a loved one diagnosed with BPD a unique experience? BPD is different from other mental illnesses such as Bipolar disorder, Schizophrenia or depression etc. in that these illnesses are treatable with medication (as long as the person takes their meds of course!. BPD is different in that meds don’t help the BPD issues like abandonment, rage and self-harm among of course others.
2018 National BPD Conference – Recordings
Recordings from the conference have been published by the Australian BPD Foundation. Sponsored by Australian BPD Foundation: The 8th Annual National Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Conference, 10-11 September 2018 at the Hotel Grand Chancellor Brisbane,...
Surviving the Moment – Forum – 30 August
A free event where Mahlie Jewell shared her strategies for maintaining recovery from BPD and surviving life’s challenging moments
August 2018 Sanctuary Meeting – Dr Martha Kent, Plans for New BPD Centre
Dr Martha Kent discussed how the new BPD Centre of Excellence (CoE) might work and all the different issues that need to be considered.
July 2018 Sanctuary Meeting – Dr Chris Wurm, GP and Addiction Specialist
Dr Chris Wurm is a counsellor and a GP Psychotherapist in Private Practice.
Two of his many areas of interest are working with people who have Drug and Alcohol issues and also adolescents diagnosed with Mental Illness
June 2018 Sanctuary Meeting – Just Us
This was a “just us” meeting, to be with people who “get it”, and learn which behaviours are not simply bad behaviour but are an effect of Borderline Personality Disorder.
May 2018 Sanctuary Meeting – Joy Anasta, Validation and Boundaries
Counsellor Joy Anasta helped us with setting boundaries for the person with BPD who we love and care for.
January 2018 Sanctuary Meeting – Aaron Fornarino, Recovery from BPD – Recording
Here is a recording of Aaron Fornarino speaking at a Sanctuary meeting about his life with BPD and his subsequent recovery.
April 2017 Sanctuary Meeting – Dr Martha Kent
Dr Martha Kent on caring for someone with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
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