Conference paper
EMOTIONALLY UNSTABLE PERSONALITY DISORDER IN PRIMARY CARE: A THEMATIC REVIEW AND NOVEL TOOLKIT
Chloe Gamlin
; School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Amie Varney
; Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHSFT, Cambridge, UK
Mark Agius
; Center for Mental Health Research in Association with the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Abstract
Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD) causes significantly impaired personality functioning to include feeling of
emptiness, lack of identity, unstable mood and relationships, intense fear of abandonment and dangerous impulsive behaviour
including severe episodes of self-harm. The vast majority of EUPD patients are managed in the community, and have less contact
with specialist psychiatric services when compared to patients with other mental illnesses. Despite the burden of this condition on
primary care, the academic literature focuses on EUPD in psychiatric inpatients. This paper therefore aims to redress this balance
through, first, establishing the key themes present in the available body of work on EUPD in the community, and second, highlighting
areas for future research. Further, in the spirit of reducing stigma surrounding mental illness, the authors present a novel and nonpejorative
toolkit for the recognition of EUPD in primary care.
Keywords
Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder; psychiatric services; community; stigma
Hrčak ID:
263315
URI
Publication date:
4.9.2019.
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