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1. The #BPD label & diagnosis: a thread. At this years #BIGSPD21 Ian & @JaneCannonMBE gave a presentation describing the experience of losing both of their teenage twin daughters to suicide. She & her husband have campaigned for young people to be able to be diagnosed with #BPD >
2. to be able to access appropriate services. Their daughters Chris & Sam were constantly being told that because their problem was not an ‘illness’ that could be medicated, they could not access any treatment. Both had all of the main symptoms that fit a #BPD diagnosis & >
3. struggled to manage the emotional turmoil they felt with self harm & suicide attempts. The interesting thing is they both wanted the diagnosis in order to be able to access services. They both rejected the idea of services for trauma and instead wanted ones that were for >
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