The Wrong Kind Of Mad
by Keir Harding & Hollie Berrigan
Hollie Berrigan and Keir Harding talk about issues associated with "personality disorder". With a variety of guests who are experts in the field, this is a wry look at the issues around this controversial diagnosis. It can be a bit sweary and we might discuss adverse experiences and self harm.
Episodes
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S2E2 The Voice in my Head - A review of the Joe Tracini documentary
Hollie and Keir remember to introduce themselves, think about the first documentary about "personality disorder" they are aware of being on national TV and lament that there was a lot of talk of madness and disorder and not enough 'natural responses to abuse'.
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S2E1 Should we diagnose children with Borderline Personality Disorder?
Hollie Berrigan and Keir Harding return for WKOM season two. It kicks off with some reflections around why there was a 2 year gap between episodes before leaping in to the rights and wrongs of using a BPD diagnosis for children. The attempt to see things from both sides is largely a failure. If…
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Out of Area Placements for "Personality Disorder"
On a day where radio 4 do a program on Mental Health rehab units https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0013hrt And the BIGSPD out of area placement report comes out https://bigspd.org.uk/bigspd-ooa/ This is Keir & Hollie talking about their experience of "specialist" personality disorder placements....
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Episode 13 - Anthony Bateman and MBT
MBT is one of the few therapies with an evidence base for those diagnosed with "personality disorder". In this episode co-creator of MBT Anthony Bateman talks about the therapy, how it works and who it is supposed to help while dispelling some myths about the therapy. Anthony talks with a lot of...
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BIGSPD Day 2 - With Oliver Dale, Julia Bazdell and Anne Aiyegbusi
Reflecting on the second (and last) day of the British Personality Disorder Conference, we consider the future of the term personality disorder, the presentation of a family whose daughters died by suicide calling for earlier diagnosis and we talk of the impact of racism in society and services....
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Episode 10 - BIGSPD Live!!! - Reflections on Day 1 of the British "Personality Disorder" Conference
Our first ever live episode. Keir and Hollie are joined by Nurse Lecturer Dan Warrender as they reflect on the first day of the BiGSPD conference. They are joined by Oliver Dale and Julia Blazdell - the BIGSPD co presidents, Sheena Dean, Tulane Chiarletti and Vanessa Jones. Covering topics such…
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Episode 9 - Sue Sibbald (BEM) the UK's leading lived experience campaigner in the field of "personality disorder"
For decades Sue Sibbald has fought to improve the experience of those who get the diagnosis of personality disorder. She started the popular Sunday night peer support session #BPDchat on twitter and co chaired the consensus statement on 'personality disorder' which called for the label to be...
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Episode 8 - Peter Kinderman on understanding distress without pathologising people.
Another episode where we learned a lot! Peter talks about the problems with the personality disorder diagnosis and argues for a different way of categorising distress. Clearly passionate about the topic, Peter wonders if we can respond to suffering without labelling people as ill. See what you...
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Episode 7 - The Upcoming Changes to "Personality Disorder" with Mike Crawford
If you're at all interested in the diagnosis of "Personality Disorder" there's some essential information in here about the changes coming in once ICD-11 is adopted in January. EUPD (and all the other types of personality disorder will go. Your diagnosis will now be Personality Disorder and rated...
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Episode 6 - Lucy Johnstone and the Power Threat Meaning Framework
Dr Lucy Johnstone is perhaps one of the most vocal campaigners for ways of describing distress that do not identify people as being ill or disordered. As one of the authors of the Power Threat Meaning Framework, in this episode Lucy describes how the model came together and how it can be applied…
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Episode 5 - Viral Kantaria - How are services for people likely to get a diagnosis of "personality disorder" changing in England?
Viral Kantaria - @ViralKMH on twitter - is a senior program manger in NHS England and the person who seems to have his finger on the pulse around how services are changing. There is money to be spent, there are staff to be trained and improvements are expected. Great to hear Viral talk about how...
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Episode 4 - The Right Honourable Sir Norman Lamb on why he is the only politician to ever mention "personality disorder"
As a member of parliament and member of the coalition government, Norman Lamb was one of the few (the only?) politicians to mention the term 'personality disorder, let alone chair a commission about it. Norman listened to people who had been given this diagnosis and co-authored the Consensus...
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Episode 3 - DBT and Emotional Regulation with Christine Dunkley
Hollie and Keir talk to Christine Dunkley, one of the lead DBT trainers in the UK. DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy) is the one therapy specifically mentioned in the NICE guidelines for "BPD". We talk about what DBT is and isn't, how phone contact works, the Stepford Wives and some of the…
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Episode 2 - Joel Paris Should people diagnosed with BPD be kept out of hospital?
Joel Paris is a Canadian psychiatrist and eminent researcher in the field of "personality disorder". He is probably the most vocal advocate of the idea that those with a BPD diagnosis should not be admitted to hospital. We explore this view with Joel, whether his research is quoted accurately and...
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Episode 0 - Who are we, and why are we here?
Keir and Hollie introduce themselves as the hosts of The Wrong Kind of Mad Podcast. While we don't mention it, the diagnosis of Personality Disorder is sometimes described in this way. It is sometimes seen as too complex for some services while others will decline to help people who have that...
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Episode 1 - Talking "BPD" with Nicola Thorpe
In the first ever recording of The Wrong Kind of Mad podcast we talk to Actress, Broadcaster and Activist Nicola Thorpe about her experiences of "BPD" & mysogyny. Nicola is one of the few people in the public eye who openly talks about identifying with BPD and we had a great discussion around...
About this show
Hollie Berrigan and Keir Harding talk about issues associated with "personality disorder". With a variety of guests who are experts in the field, this is a wry look at the issues around this controversial diagnosis. It can be a bit sweary and we might discuss adverse experiences and self harm.
Hosted by
Keir Harding & Hollie Berrigan