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The mother of a 15-year-old girl recently diagnosed with borderline personality disorder who has attempted suicide three times in a month has spoken out about her family’s ordeal, to raise awareness about gaps in mental health services for children.
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The Marshall Government has opened South Australia’s centre for the treatment of borderline personality disorder – a condition long-neglected in the state’s public health system and which has cost many young lives.
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Borderline personality disorder advocates have called on the State Government to fund a family support program and a liaison officer at the BPD Centre for Excellence.
A $10 million borderline personality disorder service, including a centre of excellence located near Adelaide’s CBD, will feature in next month’s state budget, InDaily can reveal.
The Coroner has found that adequate mental health services could have potentially prevented the deaths of two young Adelaide women, and described the State Government’s policy failures in the area as “scandalous”.
South Australian carers of people with borderline personality disorder suffer thoughts of suicide, broken relationships, lost careers and a succession of compounding hardships, a new survey has revealed.
