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title: "Psych News Alert: May Is Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month"
description: On May 8, 2007, the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder organized congressional hearings to educate legislators ...
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 5/5/11 12:00 AM

# May Is Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month

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On May 8, 2007, the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder organized congressional hearings to educate legislators about borderline personality disorder (BPD). Congressional co-sponsors for the event were Tom Davis (R-Va.) and Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.). On April 1, 2008, the U.S. House of Representatives passed, by a vote of 414-0, House Resolution 1005 in support of the month of May as Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month. *Psychiatric News* featured a four-part series profiling prominent clinician-researchers who have specialized in research on, and treatment of, BPD. See [http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/46/6/16.1.full](http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/46/6/16.1.full),   [http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/46/7/11.1.full](http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/46/7/11.1.full),   
[http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/46/8/4.1.full](http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/46/8/4.1.full).  The fourth and final installment in the series will appear online tomorrow.

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