How Sleep Can Improve Your Mental Health
18 March 2022
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Today is World Sleep Day! The theme of this year is Quality Sleep, Sound Mind, Happy World and is dedicated to raising awareness of how
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Teenagers and sleep: The effects of sleep deprivation
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The Relationship of Maternal Anxiety to a Later Diagnosis of BPD
30 September 2024
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious mental health disorder that affects the way a young person sees themselves and interacts with the world around them. Young people with BPD often have an unstable or incoherent sense of self, patterns of unstable relationships, and intense emotional reactions. They may experience chronic feelings of emptiness and a fear of abandonment by others.
Dissociation and Borderline Personality Disorder
27 September 2024
Dissociative experiences often happen when someone is exposed to a traumatic event. When someone experiences trauma, they may be overwhelmed by stress and detach, in some way, from their experience, emotions, and/or body. People who have experienced acute trauma often describe dissociating from their bodies and watching something happen to themselves.
Why Do Young People Seek (and Not Seek) Mental Health Support?
23 September 2024
Despite the mental health epidemic among adolescents and young adults, only a minority access treatment. Barriers to treatment are often institutional: in many places, specialist services do not exist, or spaces are lacking with long waiting lists. But many young people don’t seek help for mental health problems in the first place. Studies suggest that only 18-34% of young people with mental health disorders try to access professional support.
