A person may experience some of the following with Personality Disorder:

• intense and extreme emotions
• feeling as if the rest of the world doesn’t understand them and that they are alienated and alone
• difficulty keeping and maintaining relationships
• repeating unhelpful patterns of behaviour
• feeling that their problems have become part of who they are
• finding it hard to focus on more than one thing at a time
• ways of thinking that are disorganised or disordered
• self-harming to cope with painful emotions
• using drugs and/or alcohol to cope with painful feelings
• difficulty controlling impulses
• risk-taking activities e.g. gambling, dangerous driving
• having suicidal thoughts and feelings

Further advice available:

The Olive Tree, Swanswell Point, Stoney Stanton Road, Coventry CV1 4FH

Tel: 024 76 96 1266