Advancing Mental Health Wellbeing

National Mental Health Consumer & Carer Forum

Advocacy Brief - Borderline Personality Disorder

The NMHCCF is eager to hear from mental health consumers and carers across Australia.

Is there an issue you would like to bring to their attention? Contact them via their website.

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a mental illness that makes it difficult for people to feel safe in their relationships with other people, to have healthy thoughts and beliefs about themselves, and to control their extreme emotions and impulses. People living with a diagnosis of BPD may experience extreme distress in their work, family and social life, and may harm themselves.

Emerging Minds

Formerly the 'Australian Infant, Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health Association' (AICAFMHA), Emerging Minds is dedicated to advancing the mental health and emotional wellbeing of Australian infants, children, adolescents and their families.

Emerging Minds develops mental health policy, services, interventions, training, programs and resources in response to the needs of healthcare professionals, children and their families. These include online resources, practical books, DVDs, online and face-to-face training. They partner with family members, national and international organisations to implement evidence based practice into the Australian context.

Life in Mind

Life in Mind a comprehensive online portal designed to build knowledge of suicide prevention, by connecting organisations, programs, researchers and professionals working in suicide prevention in Australia. It supports a coordinated, consistent national approach to suicide prevention and reducing the impact on Australian communities.