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Borderline Personality Disorder

Why Can Christmas Celebrations Be Difficult for Young People Living with Borderline Personality Disorder?

Young people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often find Christmas celebrations difficult. BPD is characterised by intense and quickly changing moods, often in response to things that happen in relationships. When these relationships are emphasised and intensified, they may feel overwhelmed and unstable. Experiences that may feel warm and joyful to other people can be painful and lonely for someone with BPD.

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Mental Health

Why Talk Therapy is Not Always the Answer: Understanding Alexithymia

Alexithymia is related to both emotional processing and language. People with alexithymia may not recognise emotional expressions on faces as well as other people. They may find it hard to talk about interpersonal relationships or other people’s feelings, and describe their own emotional experiences with simple language without vivid descriptions. They may be less sensitive to the emotional meaning of language and tend towards concretist thinking and avoidance of metaphors.

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Eating disorder

When Eating Disorders Are So Often Maintained by Interpersonal Difficulties, Why Do We Continue to Focus on Scales, Weight, Calories and BMI?

In this blog, we explain how lasting recovery requires addressing past traumas, interpersonal difficulties, and other underlying experiences that maintain eating disorder symptoms. We outline some of the effective treatment modalities available, and question why so many recovery programs still focus on weight and numbers.

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Borderline Personality Disorder

BPD or CPTSD – Is There a Difference?

This blog explores the similarities and differences between borderline personality disorder and complex PTSD, and what is needed to make an accurate diagnosis. It also offers some information on the medical and social context in Australia, and how this can impact diagnostic practices. 

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