Family members of people with borderline personality disorder

What is Borderline Personality Disorder? Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is characterised by an intense and turbulent pattern of interpersonal relationships, characterised by episodes of uncontrollable anger, poor impulse control, emotional instability, cognitive deficits, identity deficits and recurrent suicidal behaviour. According to the DSM-5 (APA, 2013), around 2% of the world’s population suffers from BPD and…

Family members of suicidal patients

What do we know about suicidal behaviour? Suicide is a major public health problem (WHO, 2018), in the last 45 years, suicide rates have increased by 60% globally and today, suicidal behaviour is one of the leading causes of death worldwide (Klonsky, May and Saffer, 2016). The Standardised Mortality Rate (SMR) is 11.4 per 100,000,…

Family connections for family members of people with eating disorders and personality disorders

Understanding Eating Disorders Eating Disorders (ED) produce significant disturbances related to food intake and often result in intense preoccupation with weight and shape, as well as the use of strategies to manage this preoccupation, such as dieting and purging (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). These strategies can lead to medical complications affecting weight and shape or,…