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Waves: Borderline personality disorder support
What is Waves?
Waves is a support service for those who may have a diagnosis or traits of borderline personality disorder (BPD) or emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD).
The service helps to support an understanding of the diagnosis or experience, offers coping strategies and an understanding of where adverse childhood experiences may have contributed to the diagnosis or experience.
Waves gives clients:
- An opportunity to learn new skills to help manage and understand the diagnosis to enable you to lead a fulfilling life
- Help for building confidence and self-esteem
- Help for making positive connections and achieving personal goals
- A supportive, group working environment (not individual therapy, as staff are not trained therapists)
- An integrative programme working from the Human Givens approach, while using elements of DBT & CBT to help you reframe your ways of thinking
Please note that Waves is not open for self-referral. Referrals are only accepted via mental health teams, GPS or health and social care professionals .
About the service
Waves is a 12-week programme of face-to-face group sessions.
What are the traits of BPD/EUPD?
- Being easily overwhelmed by strong emotions such as distress, anxiety, anger or feelings of low self-esteem
- Difficulties with emotional connection to others and struggles with personal relationships
- Seeking control over strong emotions through self-harm, including abusing alcohol, drugs, or overdosing
- Becoming very attached to someone in a short space of time, before ‘pushing’ them away before they can be let down
For more information on borderline personality disorder, take a look at this short film, or visit Mind’s webpage on BPD.
Please note: this is not a crisis service.
For urgent help for you or someone you know, please contact your GP, visit A&E, call 999 or 111, or visit our Help Directory for more options.
What does a session look like?
- 10am – 12.30pm Life skills
- 12.30pm – 1.30pm Lunch
- 1.30pm – 3pm Art-based activities, focused work and 1-2-1s
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[Waves] really is a fantastic course. It helped me enormously and when I feel “off”, I always go straight to my Emotional Needs to work out what is wrong.
Waves service user
