[teejai]

Issue date: January 2009
Borderline personality disorder Borderline personality disorder: treatment and management

http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/pdf...EGuideline.pdf

Understanding NICE guidance
Information for people who use NHS services

http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/pdf/CG78PublicInfo.pdf

[anna342]

Thanks, I just read the whole thing! Very interesting reading to see how I should be treated!

[Ubiquitous Maninlev]

Thank you very much for this. It makes for interesting reading and is really useful for my psychiatrists appointment next week. On the whole it seems like a good thing to have this set of guidelines that Community Mental Health must follow. The thing that puts me out most is that Dialectical Behaviour Therapy is only mentioned as being available for women who self-harm. What about men? I was kind of hoping that I might get on DBT as it seems the most likely course of treatment to succeed.

Anyway, thanks once again - its really helpful to have a document to point to and say 'well, the guidance says this should happen, why isn't it?'

UM

[Beth1957]

Originally Posted by Ubiquitous Maninlev

<snip> The thing that puts me out most is that Dialectical Behaviour Therapy is only mentioned as being available for women who self-harm. What about men? I was kind of hoping that I might get on DBT as it seems the most likely course of treatment to succeed.

<snip>
UM

That does seem extremely unfair, UM. Worth going down the sex discrimination route perhaps?
Mind you, as a woman who self-harms I've not been offered DBT, and am unlikely to be offered it because I'm already in group therapy. I'll have a word with my psychiatrist at my March appointment though. Not that I'd want to leave the group because we're bonded...

[Ubiquitous Maninlev]

Originally Posted by Beth1957

That does seem extremely unfair, UM. Worth going down the sex discrimination route perhaps?
Mind you, as a woman who self-harms I've not been offered DBT, and am unlikely to be offered it because I'm already in group therapy. I'll have a word with my psychiatrist at my March appointment though. Not that I'd want to leave the group because we're bonded...

I can see there being justification of having an all women group - particularly given the traumas BPDs have often suffered. It just seems a bit odd that there is no male equivalent. But I'll ask about it next week, as DBT has been brought up in the past.

If your group is going well it seems well worth sticking with it. It'll probably take a while for these guidelines to bed in anyway, so it may well be easier to get a place on DBT in the future should you wish to pursue it.

UM

No good for me Scotland isnt included ........

[Princess Butterfly]

Thankyou for that info.
I was diagnoised 8years ago