Experiences of Personality Disorder
‘Much More Than A Label’
Do we need better services for BPD/EUPD in Edinburgh?
- Are you a person with BPD or EUPD who lives in Edinburgh? Please take MMTAL’s survey about your experiences of mental health services in Edinburgh here!
- Are you a mental health professional in Edinburgh who works directly with people with BPD or EUPD? Please take MMTAL’s survey about your experiences at work here!
Your anonymous views will be used to create a report for service providers about how people with BPD/EUPD are supported by mental health services in Edinburgh. By giving a few minutes of your time filling in the survey you’ll be helping our advocacy work asking for the best possible support for people with personality disorders in Edinburgh. If you have any questions, or would like to share your experiences in another way, please get in touch with the group’s facilitator, Alex, at alex@capsadvocacy.org
About the Personality Disorder project
Have you:
Been given a diagnosis of a personality disorder?
Had experiences that you feel fit with a personality disorder diagnosis?
Do you want to:
Have your say about the information and support you’ve received?
Try to make changes in the way you are treated or the services provided?
Get in touch and get involved!
What does the Project do?
The aim of the project is for people who have been given a diagnosis of a personality disorder or had experiences that they feel fit with a personality disorder diagnosis to come together, have a collective voice and create change.
The group decides what it wants to do (it is experience-led) and has a CAPS staff member to enable/facilitate its decisions
For example, the group could:
- Collect views of people who identify with the experiences of a personality disorder diagnosis
- Use people’s views and experiences to create resources and training
- Explore different ways to get information about people’s experiences across
For more information or to get involved, contact alex@capsadvocacy.org.
Education as Advocacy
The Much More Than A Label group has run workshops for students at Queen Margaret University and Edinburgh University, some to occupational therapy students and some to psychology students.
BPD Voices book
The group recently produced a book called BPD Voices. The book shares the voices of people with experience of Borderline Personality Disorder.
We have a toolkit available full of information about the diagnosis of personality disorder:
Click on the sections below for links to the toolkit:
- Section 1 Introduction
- Section 2 How does it feel…?
- Section 3 Diagnosis
- Section 4 Language and Labels
- Section 5 Support and Treatment
- Section 6 Attitudes
- Section 7 Living Your Life
This document presents the design of a piece of collective advocacy by the Much More Than a Label project, about the lived experience of personality disorder diagnosis: Experience Led Research.
For more information or to get involved, contact alex@capsadvocacy.org
