The service can be useful for people who frequently experience intense and difficult emotions, perhaps with sudden and extreme swings in mood states and feelings. People who come to our service may also struggle with frequent feelings of emptiness and difficulties in understanding who they are. These emotional problems may lead to difficulties in forming and maintaining relationships, and less fulfilling lives.

When people find that this is impacting their life in a way that is all-encompassing, this can result in a diagnosis of a personality disorder. This label is a contentious one, and as a team we recognise this, however it is currently the term used to understand why some may find their life experiences have led them to seek support.  We all have a personality, but it is when certain aspects of how we think and feel interfere with our lives to the extent that it’s hard to find happiness alongside others (rather than thinking about us as ‘disordered’).