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Emergency Information

If someone is threatening to physically harm you or themselves:

  - In the US Call 911 or your local police
- Go to your local police station or emergency room

If you or someone you know are having suicidal thoughts:

- In the US Call
1-800-273-2855 (1-800-273-TALK) or
1-800-784-2433 (1-800-SUICIDE)
- Go to your local police station or emergency room

If your child has been abducted:

- In the US call 911 and engage local law enforcement
- Call the National Center For Missing And Exploited Children: 1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST).

Please, do not try to handle an emergency alone. Get help at once.

Other Crisis Hotlines

National Mental Health Association Crisis Line
1-800-969-6642

Suicide Crisis Hotline
1-800-784-2433

Domestic Violence Hotline
1-800-799-7233

National Domestic Violence Hotline (Canada)
1-800-363-9010

SAFE-Self Abuse Finally Ends
1-800-366-8288

http://www.hotpeachpages.net Contains an extensive inventory of hotlines, shelters, refuges, crisis centers and women's organizations, searchable by country. Plus an index of domestic violence resources in over 70 languages.

http://www.survivorsofsuicide.com for those who have survived the suicide of a loved one

What to do if you think your children might be kidnapped.
http://www.nissenbaumlaw.com/public/kidnapping/index.shtml

Documents at The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children:
http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PageServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=200


For More Information & Support...

If you suspect you may be in a relationship with or related to someone who suffers from a personality disorder, we encourage you to learn all you can and gather as much support as you can to help you learn how to cope. Click here to learn about more Common Behaviors of Personality Disorders, learn about the good ideas and mistakes that others in similar situations have made in Common Behaviors of Non-Personality Disordered-People. Learn the essential terminology and vocabulary at our Personality Disorder Glossary. Follow our Links to related sites, discover key Books about personality disorders or read the real-life stories of others and discuss your own situation in the Introductions section of our Out of the FOG Support Forum.


 

 
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DSM-V Changes Personality Disorder Diagnosis

Feb 10, 2010 - The American Psychiatric Association today released their first draft of the 5th revision of the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual (DSM-V) which regroups personality disorder diagnoses into 5 categories:

  • Antisocial/Psychopathic Type
  • Avoidant Type
  • Borderline Type
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Type
  • Schizotypal Type

There is also a proposed mechanism for scoring the severity and the match of each of the diagnostic traits.

The proposals are not final and the APA has a comment period starting today and ending April 20th 2010. The DSM-V is scheduled for release in May 2013.

See the APA DSM-V website at http://www.dsm5.org

Out of the FOG Support Forum Update

Dec 30 2009 - Those of you who use the "stay logged in" feature of the Out of the FOG support forum will notice that you unexpectedly had to log in again today. Please don't be alarmed. This was caused by some updates to the board behind the scenes. Please excuse the inconvenience.

Our support forum can be found at http://forum.outofthefog.net

Out of the FOG Celebrates 2 years

Nov 1 2009 - Out of the FOG is celebrating 2 years in bringing information and support to family members and loved-ones of people who suffer from personality disorders. In the two years since we launched, our traffic has grown exponentially and we are rapidly becoming one of the internet's premier sources of information on coping with personality disorders. Happy birthday OOTF and thanks to all our members and supporters around the world.

Out of the FOG Support Forum Zetaboards Upgrade

June 15 2009 - Please excuse our appearance while the Out of the FOG Support Forum upgrades to run on the new Zetaboards software platform. The new software contains a number of new features and improvements over our existing system which should become evident after the conversion is completed.

This upgrade will convert all our existing forums, posts, PM's, memberships and profiles. There should be very little interruption in service or loss of data. The only thing you will notice is changes to the appearance of the graphical interface. It will take 1-2 weeks to complete the conversion.

Our main Out of the FOG information site, here at http://www.outofthefogsite.com will be unaffected by the upgrade. Bookmark this site and visit here if you have any trouble logging into the board. Should any unexpected interruption in our service occur, an announcement will be posted in the "Latest News" Box at at http://www.outofthefogsite.com. Additionally, a temporary discussion forum has been established here which you can use should we experience any long-term interruption of service.

Please excuse any inconvenience you may experience as we perform the upgrade.

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A.J. Mahari's new site BPD INFO

June 3 2009 - BPD author A.J. Mahari has launched a new version of her website called BPD INFO which has a section which invites members to submit website articles about BPD. Our own gary submitted an article to her site this week.

The site, which includes a support forum is at http://bpdinfo.borderlinepersonality.ca/

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