Welcome to Out of the FOG - Information and support for those with a family member or loved-one who suffers from a personality disorder. Click here for an intro.
Here is a catalog of sites and links which you may find useful:
NEA-BPD - http://www.borderlinepersonalitydisorder.com/ The Mission of the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (NEA-BPD) is to raise public awareness, provide education, promote research on borderline personality disorder, and enhance the quality of life of those affected by this serious mental illness.
Anything to Stop The Pain - information site, blog and support board for Non-Borderlines, with a particular emphasis on supporting people who have children with BPD and people in a committed relationship with a person who suffers from BPD.
BPD Recovery - http://www.bpdrecovery.com/ BPDRecovery is a site that focuses on recovering from Borderline Personality Disorder. The Site is run by a recovered Borderline. It is a non-discriminatory website which means that all individuals are welcome - whether you've been formally diagnosed or simply recognize yourself or someone you know in the diagnostic criteria, you are welcome here!
Anything to Stop The Pain - information site, blog and support board for Non-Borderlines, with a particular emphasis on supporting people who have children with BPD and people in a committed relationship with a person who suffers from BPD.
WTOAdultChildren1 - (Formerly known as ModOasis) Support Group for people age 18 and over who have or who had a parent with borderline personality disorder.
Borderline: Walking the Line - 2007 Psychology Today article on living with and coping beyond a borderline parent.
Links for Parents
Anything to Stop The Pain - information site, blog and support board for Non-Borderlines, with a particular emphasis on supporting people who have children with BPD and people in a committed relationship with a person who suffers from BPD.
Anything to Stop The Pain - information site, blog and support board for Non-Borderlines, with a particular emphasis on supporting people who have children with BPD and people in a committed relationship with a person who suffers from BPD.
http://www.ourfamilywizard.com - Excellent site for divorced couples to share information regarding their children. Includes a custody calendar, an information database for babysitters, medical and educational providers and a message board for discussing and recording specific issues and updates.
http://www.eddylaw.com Information on divorcing people who have a personality disorder by William Eddy, author of "Splitting".
http://www.highconflictinstitute.com Another site hosted by William Eddy, author of "Splitting", containing Information and resources on handling legal cases with people who have "high conflict personalities".
http://www.msbp.com UK Site questioning the validity of MBPS/MSBP syndrome with links to news articles and cases where the theory has been discredited.
DivorceCare Evangelical Christian-based organization offering weekly suppport groups to help those who are separated & divorced.
Beginning Experience Catholic-based organization offering weekend retreats to help those who are separated, divorced or widowed to heal their loss.
Working on Ourselves
DivorceCare Evangelical Christian-based organization offering weekly suppport groups to help those who are separated & divorced.
Beginning Experience Catholic-based organization offering weekend retreats to help those who are separated, divorced or widowed to heal their loss.
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.
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.
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.
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.
