Personality Disorder Awareness Network (PDAN) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to increasing public awareness of personality disorders, alleviating the impact of personality disorders on families, and preventing the development of personality disorders in children. PDAN currently focuses on personality disorders that have significant effects on families through […]
Read more →Wednesday 18 June 2014, 12:00 noon (Eastern US) = 5:00 pm (UK) Speaker: Susan Rabin, author of The Summer Train Topic: Susan Rabin, author of “How to Attract Anyone Anytime Any Place”, has turned her talent to fiction in a book called “The Summer Train. A Woman’s Journey from Desperation to […]
Read more →Suicide, suicide attempts and self-inflicted injuries are much more common than we think they are. In the US, there were 38,364 suicide in 2010. That’s on average 105 suicides per day nationwide. If we could divide evenly per state, that’d be over 2 suicides per day on […]
Read more →Did you miss the chat with Kiera Van Gelder and Teresa Lynne on recovery from BPD? No problem! We have uploaded the video so you can watch anytime! About our speakers: Kiera Van Gelder is the author of “The Buddha and the Borderline“. Teresa is a DBT […]
Read more →Dear Friends, We are pleased to announce and share the launch of our new logo! The hands represent the help, the support and the love, not only by its pose but also by holding the puzzle piece. This piece has chaotic shapes and colors inside it to […]
Read more →Today we have a new review for An Umbrella For Alex. With all of the different things PDAN is doing lately, it’s important to stick true to our roots, which is to provide help for families of those with personality disorders. This was our very first published […]
Read more →Kids do tend to turn out like their parents, but developmental research suggests parenting plays a bigger role in that tendency than genes. Nature may hand us some challenges, but through deliberate nurture, we can meet them. As parents, we desperately want to help our kids be […]
Read more →Dear amazing social media volunteers and staff of PDAN, I hope you’ll be interested in reading this. All comments welcome! PDAN’s Facebook page is doing great. Thank you so much for your excellent work. Please continue!! PDAN has grown to over 28,000 friends or followers on Facebook. Our […]
Read more →Life has taught me the importance of telling my story. I can’t afford not to now. Sharing it, I discovered I had value and a purpose. A personal commitment to help others helped me learn that and in the process affirm myself. But that’s not where I […]
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