Personality disorders Plymouth
Personality disorders Plymouth
About Us
The Personality Disorders Plymouth website has been created by an individual with lived in family experience of Personality Disorder. It has been edited and contributed to by the members of the BPD support group in Plymouth and feedback from Personality Disorder communitites and professionals.
It offers information and advice for people with Personality Disorders, their carers and friends.
It also contains a BLOG which was specifically designed to share the topics and tips discussed in a Borderline Personality Disorder support group, which is held weekly in Plymouth.
The information will also be useful for other Personality Disorders.
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What to expect
Personality Disorders Plymouth has gathered information on the 10 different types of personality disorder and outlined them in the Personality Disorder pages.
Here you will find descriptions, symptoms, causes and symptom treatments for personality disorders.
There is also a directory under 'Resources' which has many useful phone numbers for a variety of needs from; social, housing, debt and financial advice, eating disorders, mental health, support helplines, alcohol abuse and drug abuse.
The carers page offers information and support to those who care for someone with a personality disorder.
Blog
Reseach developments
​​​​Mental health has been highlighted in the news more recently as a growing area for research development.
The amount of people living with mental health conditions warrants the need for research into new innovative treatments.
View recent research.
Diagnostic Language
The term Personality Disorder is used in diagnosis, however many mental health practitioners disagree with terms and diagnoses such as this.
Usually addressing the underlying issues and reducing the negative symptoms of these conditions is the goal, no matter what name they are given.
This is particularly relevant for Personality Disorders because they are often experienced with other mental health conditions and symptoms, so it can be hard to diagnose due to these overlaps.
New guidelines for psychiatric diagnostic language by the Division of Clinical Psychology are set out in this document:
http://www.bps.org.uk/system/files/Public%20files/guidelines_on_language_web.pdf
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