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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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A centre of excellence for the treatment of people with borderline personality disorder will be set up on Greenhill Road, just outside Adelaide’s CBD, next year, says Health Minister Stephen Wade.
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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.
The State Government’s plan to address systematic failures in the treatment of South Australians suffering borderline personality disorder is “manifestly inadequate”, advocates have warned.
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