People with borderline personality disorder experiences of mental health services in an Australian context: Associated anxiety and structural stigma
Pauline Klein, Shahid Ullah, Sharon Lawn, A Kate Fairweather · 2026
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Klein and co-authors examine how anxiety and stigma intertwine when Australians with borderline personality disorder try to use mental health services. The diagnosis itself attracts notorious prejudice inside healthcare, which patients internalise as dread of being dismissed. Their 2026 analysis draws on a 2017 national consumer survey covering 423 adults with the diagnosis, over nine tenths of them women. It models which experiences predict feeling very anxious about specific aspects of care.
Most respondents felt anxious approaching services whether or not they had an anxiety disorder, which the authors read as stigma generating anxiety rather than anxiety generating itself. Having an anxiety disorder multiplied the dread of not being taken seriously several-fold, yet those respondents worried less about cost, oddly. Being previously refused public hospital admission sharply raised anxiety about both cost and waiting lists.
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| CREATOR | Pauline Klein, Shahid Ullah, Sharon Lawn, A Kate Fairweather |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |