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DRM, Spring Anime & COVID-19

Crack and share. Until it is done. At least, if there's anything to crack. For the second time Bethesda have managed to release a game with a built-in crack for the Denuvo DRM. What's the story behind it? Incompetence, a rogue agent, or are Bethesda secretly the DRM free heroes we don't deserve? Doom Eternal is the latest casualty of Bethesda's DRM mistakes, and Professor wants to know why.

DJ has a list of the newest anime to watch this spring, or autumn if you live in the south. Southern Hemisphere Best Hemisphere. Get the latest ridiculously long anime names here!

Just when you thought it was safe to go outside after the fires, COVID-19 swept in. Where did it come from? A lab has dissected the DNA behind this threat and all signs point to COVID-19 not being a Chinese bioweapon. Keep the conspiracies coming, science knows what's what.

This week, both nerds played a Doom related game. Professor plays an official series game, but DJ plays a parody.

As usual, the Nerds discuss the latest shoutouts and events of interest. RIP Al Worden, Albert Uderzo and Kenny Rogers.

We'll be back next week for another episode. We're not going anywhere, and by the looks of things, neither are you.

DRM Eternal 

            - https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/03/bethesda-apparently-broke-its-own-denuvo-protection-for-doom-eternal/

Upcoming Spring Anime Lineup and other anime news

            -https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-feature/2020/03/20-1/crunchyroll-announces-spring-2020-anime-lineup

The origin story of COVID-19

            -https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200317175442.htm

- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9

Games Played

Professor

- Doom 3 : BFG Edition - https://store.steampowered.com/app/208200/Doom_3_BFG_Edition/

Rating – 3.5/5

DJ

– BDSM: Big Drunk Satanic Massacre Demo - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1209860/BDSM_Big_Drunk_Satanic_Massacre_Demo/

Rating – 3/5

Other topics discussed

Queensland borders closed due to Coronavirus

- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-26/coronavirus-threat-sparks-calls-to-close-nsw-border-with-qld/12091632

MyGov is down due to a “cyber-attack” – Minister

- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-23/mygov-website-down-centrelink-massive-queues-coronavirus/12080558

Alcohol restrictions are now limited in Western Australia

- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-25/coronavirus-covid-19-wa-alcohol-sales-from-bottle-shops-limited/12087974

Panic buying in alcohol leads to more drinking

- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-26/coronavirus-crisis-has-people-drinking-more-experts-say/12086790

Rage 2 drops Denuvo DRM

- https://www.kotaku.com.au/2019/05/rage-2-drops-denuvo-drm-in-record-time/

Rage (a first-person shooter video game developed by id Software)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_(video_game)

- https://store.steampowered.com/app/9200/RAGE/

Rime allegedly runs faster with Denuvo DRM stripped out

- https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/06/crackers-say-denuvo-drm-caused-slowdown-on-rime/

Bleach Anime Returning With Thousand Year Blood War Adaptation

- https://www.cbr.com/bleach-anime-return-thousand-year-blood-war/

Bleach: The Thousand-Year Blood War, Explained

- https://www.cbr.com/bleach-thousand-year-blood-war-explained/

Fate/Grand Order Announces New Solomon Anime

- https://comicbook.com/anime/2020/03/21/fate-grand-order-final-singularity-solomon-anime-announced/

Fate/Grand Order: Camelot Film Confirms Release Date with New Trailer

- https://comicbook.com/anime/2020/03/22/fate-grand-order-camelot-film-release-date-trailer/

Definition of anime filler

- https://www.quora.com/What-does-a-filler-mean-in-anime

Tite Kubo’s reaction to the new anime announcement

- https://comicbook.com/anime/2020/03/22/bleach-anime-comeback-revival-tite-kubo-comment-manga/

Fullmetal Alchemist (Japanese anime television series adapted from the mangaof the same name written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa. During production, Arakawa requested an original ending that differed from the manga, leading to the series deviating into an original plot halfway through.)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullmetal_Alchemist_(TV_series)

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (Japanese anime television series adapted from the Fullmetal Alchemist manga by Hiromu Arakawa. Unlike the previous adaptation, Brotherhood is an almost 1:1 adaptation directly following the original events of the manga.)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullmetal_Alchemist:_Brotherhood

Prince Charles tested positive for Coronavirus

- https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52033845

History of H.I.V/AIDS (AIDS is caused by a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which originated in non-human primates in Central and West Africa. While various sub-groups of the virus acquired human infectivity at different times, the global pandemic had its origins in the emergence of one specific strain – HIV-1 subgroup M – in Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo (now Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in the 1920s)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_HIV/AIDS

Plague Inc.

- https://www.ndemiccreations.com/en/22-plague-inc

Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy

- https://store.steampowered.com/app/240720/Getting_Over_It_with_Bennett_Foddy/

Markiplier plays Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH9w9VlyNO4

Cacodemon (Doom 3) (The Cacodemon in Doom 3, as compared to the original monster, is taupe in color, has a wider mouth, and has multiple green eyes, as well as some longer, thin tentacles hanging from the bottom of its body.)

- https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Cacodemon/Doom_3

Doom 3 (2004 horror first-person shooter video game, developed by id Software and published by Activision.)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_3

Rugby Football Union (The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is the governing body for rugby union in England. )

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_Football_Union

Shout Outs

18 March 2020 – Alfred Worden passes away - https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2020/03/20/apollo-15-astronaut-al-worden-has-died/#2315b43836c6

Alfred Worden, American astronaut and engineer who was the Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 15 lunar mission in 1971. One of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon, he orbited it 74 times in the Command Module Endeavour. During Apollo 15's return flight to Earth, Worden performed an extravehicular activity to retrieve film cassettes from the exterior of the spacecraft, the Apollo command and service module. While orbiting the Moon alone, farther from other people than anyone has ever been, Worden mapped a quarter of the lunar surface, measured the composition of lunar rocks from space, picked out a landing site for the final Apollo mission, and launched a miniature satellite into lunar orbit to study the Moon’s gravity and magnetic field. It was the first "deep space" EVA in history, at great distance from any planetary body. As of 2020, it remains one of only three such EVAs that have taken place, all during the Apollo program's J-missions. He died from a stroke in Sugar Land, Texas at the age of 88

18 March 2020 –The discovery of Asteriornis maastrichtensis, the oldest definitive species of modern bird, which lived at the end of the Mesozoic era.

- https://www.newsweek.com/wonderchicken-oldest-known-modern-bird-dinosaur-1493000 

- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2096-0

Researchers have discovered the remains of an extinct animal that may represent the oldest "modern" bird known to science. An international team of palaeontologists identified the near-complete fossil skull of the bird, which they have dated to between 66.8 and 66.7 million years ago. Dubbed Asteriornis maastrichtensis, the extinct bird—affectionately nicknamed the "wonderchicken"—shares some features that can be seen in modern-day ducks and chickens, according to a study published in the journal Nature. The palaeontologists say the find sheds new light on the evolution of modern birds and could help explain why these animals survived the mass-extinction event, while large dinosaurs did not. "We have discovered the oldest modern bird fossil yet identified," Daniel Field, an author of the study from the University of Cambridge in the U.K., told Newsweek. "Asteriornis maastrichtensis is an early fossil bird close to the origin of the group that today includes chicken-like birds and duck-like birds. Asteriornis lived 66.7 million years ago, at the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, and provides new insights into what modern birds were like early in their evolutionary history."

20 March 2020 – Kenny Rogers passes away - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/mar/21/kenny-rogers-country-music-star-dies-aged-81

Kenny Rogers, the American country music star with hits popular across the world, has died. His husky voice and down-home narrative style won him three Grammy awards and put him at the top of the American music business for more than four decades. He sold over 100 million records worldwide during his lifetime, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. His fame and career spanned multiple genres: jazz, folk, pop, rock, and country. He remade his career and was one of the most successful cross-over artists of all time. His signature song, 1978's "The Gambler", was a cross-over hit that won him a Grammy Award in 1980 and was selected in 2018 for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress. The singer, who has been mourned by fans this weekend on social media, once summed up his success with mainstream audiences by explaining that the traditional lyrics to his songs “say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear”. He died from natural causes in Sandy Springs, Georgia at the age of 81.

24 March 2020 – Albert Uderzo passes away - https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-52016721

Albert Uderzo, one of the two creators of the beloved comic book character Asterix, who captured the spirit of the Gauls of yore and grew a reputation worldwide, has died. He created the famous stories - about the adventures of Gaulish warriors fighting the Roman Empire - with his friend René Goscinny in 1959. As well as illustrating the series, Urderzo took over the writing following Goscinny's death in 1977. The books have sold 370 million copies worldwide, in dozens of languages, and several stories have been turned into cartoons and feature films. The series continues to this day under new ownership, with the most recent book, Asterix and the Chieftain's Daughter, released last October. French Culture Minister Franck Riester said that Uderzo "found the magic potion", referring to his spirit, craftsmanship and long hours of work. He died from a heart attack in Neuilly-sur-Seine at the age of 92.

Remembrances

23 March 1981 - Beatrice Tinsley - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Tinsley

Beatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley, British-born New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist and professor of astronomy at Yale University, whose research made fundamental contributions to the astronomical understanding of how galaxies evolve, grow and die. Tinsley completed pioneering theoretical studies of how populations of stars age and affect the observable qualities of galaxies. She also collaborated on basic research into models investigating whether the universe is closed or open. Her galaxy models led to the first approximation of what protogalaxies should look like. In 1978, she became the first female professor of astronomy at Yale University. Her last scientific paper, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal ten days before her death, was published posthumously that November, without revision. She died from cancer at the age of 40 in New Haven, Connecticut.

23 March 2001 - Margaret Ursula Jones - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Ursula_Jones

English archaeologist, best known for directing major excavations at Mucking, Essex. She worked at a number of sites, but is best known for her excavations at Mucking, a major Anglo-Saxon settlement and associated cemetery, with finds ranging from the Stone Age to the Medieval period. The Mucking excavation, which Jones directed from 1965 to 1978, became Britain's largest ever archaeological excavation. It produced an unprecedented volume of material, although some academic archaeologists have criticised the fact that the results did not appear in print until decades after the excavation had ended. Jones' work at Mucking, as well as her role in founding the campaign group Rescue, was influential in the establishment of modern commercial archaeology in Britain. Jones herself also gained a reputation as an eccentric and intimidating figure: "indomitable, formidable, disinclined to suffer fools but very kind to those she considered worth helping, dedicated and inventive". She died at the age of 84.

23 March 2007 – Paul Cohen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cohen

American mathematician. He is best known for his proofs that the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice are independent from Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, for which he was awarded a Fields Medal. Cohen is noted for developing a mathematical technique called forcing, which he used to prove that neither the continuum hypothesis (CH) nor the axiom of choice can be proved from the standard Zermelo–Fraenkel axioms (ZF) of set theory. In conjunction with the earlier work of Gödel, this showed that both of these statements are logically independent of the ZF axioms: these statements can be neither proved nor disproved from these axioms. In this sense, the continuum hypothesis is undecidable, and it is the most widely known example of a natural statement that is independent from the standard ZF axioms of set theory. While studying the continuum hypothesis, Cohen is quoted as saying in 1985 that he had "had the feeling that people thought the problem was hopeless, since there was no new way of constructing models of set theory. Indeed, they thought you had to be slightly crazy even to think about the problem." He died from lung disease at the age of 72 in Stanford, California, near Palo Alto.

Famous Birthdays

23 March 1890 – Cedric Gibbons - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric_Gibbons

Irish-American art director and production designer for the film industry. He also made a significant contribution to motion picture theater architecture from the 1930s to 1950s. Gibbons designed the Oscar statuette in 1928, but tasked the sculpting to George Stanley, a Los Angeles artist. Gibbons was one of the original 36 founding members of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and designed the Academy Awards statuette in 1928. A trophy for which he himself would be nominated 39 times, winning 11. The last time for Best Art Direction for Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956). Gibbons' set designs, particularly those in such films as Born to Dance (1936) and Rosalie (1937), heavily inspired motion picture theater architecture in the late 1930s through 1950s. In February 2005 Gibbons was inducted into the Art Directors Hall of Fame. He was born in New York City.

23 March 1907 - Daniel Bovet - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Bovet

Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of drugs that block the actions of specific neurotransmitters. He is best known for his discovery in 1937 of antihistamines, which block the neurotransmitter histamine and are used in allergy medication. His other research included work on chemotherapy,sulfa drugs, the sympathetic nervous system, the pharmacology of curare, and other neuropharmacological interests. In 1965, Bovet led a study team which concluded that smoking of tobacco cigarettes increased users' intelligence. He told The New York Times that the object was not to "create geniuses, but only [to] put the less-endowed individual in a position to reach a satisfactory mental and intellectual development". He was born in Fleurier.

23 March 1924 - Bette Nesmith Graham - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Nesmith_Graham

American typist, commercial artist, and the inventor of the correction fluid Liquid Paper (not to be confused with competitor White-Out). She was the mother of musician and producer Michael Nesmith of The Monkees. To make extra money, she used her talent painting holiday windows at the bank. She realized as she said, "with lettering, an artist never corrects by erasing, but always paints over the error. So I decided to use what artists use. I put some tempera water-based paint in a bottle and took my watercolor brush to the office. I used to correct my mistakes." She eventually began marketing her typewriter correction fluid as "Mistake Out" in 1956. The name was later changed to Liquid Paper when she began her own company. She was born in Dallas, Texas.

25 March 1920 - Patrick George Troughton - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Troughton

English actor. He was classically trained for the stage but became most widely known for his roles in television and film. His work included appearances in several fantasy, science fiction and horror films, but he became best known for his role as the second incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running British science-fiction television series Doctor Who, which he played from 1966 to 1969; he reprised the role in 1973, 1983 and 1985. he was born in Mill Hill, Middlesex.

Events of Interest

23 March 1801 – Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death inside his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_I_of_Russia#Assassination

On the night of 23 March 1801, a band of dismissed officers murdered Paul in his bedroom in the newly-built St. Michael's Castle. The assassins included General Bennigsen, a Hanoverian in the Russian service, and General Yashvil, a Georgian. They charged into his bedroom, flushed with drink after dining together, and found Paul hiding behind some drapes in the corner. he conspirators pulled him out, forced him to the table, and tried to compel him to sign his abdication. Paul offered some resistance, and Nikolay Zubov struck him with a sword, after which the assassins strangled and trampled him to death. Paul's successor on the Russian throne, his son, the 23-year-old Alexander, was actually in the palace at the time of the killing. General Nikolay Zubov announced his accession to the heir, accompanied by the admonition, "Time to grow up! Go and rule!" Alexander I did not punish the assassins, and the court physician, James Wylie, declared apoplexy the official cause of death.

23 March 1888 – In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Football_League

The first meeting was held at Anderton's Hotel in London on 23 March 1888 on the eve of the FA Cup Final. The Football League was formally created and named in Manchester at a further meeting on 17 April at the Royal Hotel. The name "Association Football Union" was proposed by McGregor but this was felt too close to "Rugby Football Union". Instead, "The Football League" was proposed by Major William Sudell, representing Preston, and quickly agreed upon. Each club played the others twice, once at home and once away, and two points were awarded for a win and one for a draw. This points system was not agreed upon until after the season had started; the alternative proposal was one point for a win only. Preston won the first league title without losing a game, and completed the first league–cup double by also taking the FA Cup.

23 March 1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young). - https://www.nasa.gov/content/march-23-1965-launch-of-first-crewed-gemini-flight

NASA's two-man Gemini spaceflights demonstrated that astronauts could change their capsule's orbit, remain in space for at least two weeks and work outside their spacecraft. They also pioneered rendezvous and docking with other spacecraft. All were essential skills to land on the moon and return safely to Earth. Veteran Mercury astronaut Grissom was selected as command pilot of Gemini III, making him the first person traveling into space twice. Joining Grissom was Young, the first member of the second group of NASA pilots to fly in space. Young would go on to become the first person to make six spaceflights, including commanding Apollo 16 during which he walked on the moon. He also commanded STS-1, the first shuttle mission. Gemini III's primary goal was to test the new, maneuverable spacecraft. In space, the crew members fired thrusters to change the shape of their orbit, shift their orbital plane slightly, and drop to a lower altitude. The revolutionary orbital maneuvering technology paved the way for rendezvous missions later in the Gemini Program and proved it was possible for a lunar module to lift off the moon and dock with the lunar orbiting command module for the trip home to Earth. It also meant spacecraft could be launched to rendezvous and dock with an orbiting space station.

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Nine sells Fairfax community newspapers to Antony Catalano

Updated April 30, 2019 14:41:13 Former Fairfax Media executive Antony 'The Cat' Catalano has struck a $115 million deal to buy his old employer's regional newspaper group put on the market last year by new owners Nine Entertainment. The long-anticipated deal to secure Australian Community Media (ACM) is backed by Mr Catalano and the Thorney Investment Group, which is controlled by billionaire businessman Alex Waislitz. The sale, expected to be completed by June 30, sees Nine offload more than 160 regional mastheads, including The Newcastle Herald, The Illawarra Mercury, The Canberra Times, The Land and The Examiner. In an email to staff, Nine Entertainment chief executive Hugh Marks said Mr Catalano and Thorney Investment were, "strongly positioned to capitalise on the opportunities in front of them". Mr Marks said ACM had been examined by a number of interested parties, "because they are all good and profitable, with strong teams and a vision for the future ahead of them". Nine exiting 'non-core businesses' Nine Entertainment swooped on Fairfax Media last year in a $3 billion deal that extinguished the separate identity of the once-prestigious brand, in the process acquiring The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian Financial Review. The purchase included a majority stake in the Domain real estate classifieds business, streaming service Stan and a 54.5-per-cent stake in the Macquarie Media radio network. The Federal Court approved the takeover in November, despite a last-minute attempt by Mr Catalano, the former chief executive of Domain, to derail the deal, claiming Fairfax shareholders had been short-changed by $600 million. In a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange, Nine chief executive Hugh Marks said the sale was aligned with the strategy, "to exit non-core businesses and focus on Nine's portfolio of high-growth, digital assets". Mr Marks said the $115 million sale proceeds will be used to pay down debt within the Nine Group. End of an era Arrangements with ACM to print Nine's metropolitan publications will continue and, "for a short transitional period", ACM and Nine will continue to share editorial content. But, longer-term, the sale of the regional papers marks the end of their association with city mastheads such as The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Newcastle Herald reporter Michael Pariss, who has worked at the paper for 24 years, said it was a sad day. "It's confirmation that the Newcastle Herald and other significant titles that have been in the group won't be part of the Fairfax group anymore, even though Fairfax doesn't exist anymore there's still that connection," he said. "We have professional links with those people, our stories appear in those papers, it's seen as a stepping stone for young reporters to move onto those titles, to progress those careers. "In that sense it's sad that those links have been lost." But he hoped it will bring a new life to the paper that has seen two major rounds of job cuts in the last seven years. "We feel like we're still doing a good job and we're hopeful that under the new owners there'll be maybe some investment in the paper to help us continue doing that and maybe even improve on that," he said. Honorary research associate at RMIT's School of Media and Communication Vincent O'Donnell welcomed the sale and said it was a good decision by Nine to sell to Antony Catalano. "The guy has demonstrated in the past with his involvement in Domain an ability to work with media that is uncommon with Australian businessmen," he said. "Once again rural and regional newspapers will have a focus that's on rural and regional newspapers, not on city papers to run the business." A source from The Canberra Times told the ABC the deal was the best outcome among prospective buyers, and agreed that Mr Catalano appeared most likely to invest in local journalism. But a former editor of the paper said readers in Canberra were not only interested in local news and the sale of the paper should be seen as an opportunity to re-energise the publication. "We were rightly regarded as a metropolitan daily newspaper smaller, but in the same league as The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age within Fairfax management," Mark Baker, who is now chief executive of the Melbourne Press Club, said. "Since then the paper has been relegated to be regarded as a regional title and somewhat pushed down the totem pole, which I think is a big mistake." The ABC has contacted Mr Catalano for additional information on how he plans to make ACM profitable in a tough environment for traditional media outlets after years of cost-cutting under Fairfax Media. Nine Entertainment shares were up 1.7 per cent higher at $1.70 after the sale of ACM was announced this morning. 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'I've suffered my whole life': Living with borderline personality disorder

Updated July 29, 2018 09:47:11

Photo: Victoria Houlder says living with borderline personality disorder for decades was debilitating. (ABC News: Chloe Hart) Borderline personality disorder (BPD) can be a debilitating mental illness. Sufferers can endure substance abuse, bouts of extreme anger, and urges to steal and live dangerously. But thanks to a new collaborative approach to treating personality disorders, help is more accessible to patients and families. Victoria Houlder, 45, has been plagued by BPD for most of her life. "You steal things that you obviously don't need, you have no patience, you can fly off the handle and just lose it," Ms Houlder said. "People think 'What is your problem?' but it's lack of control you aren't able to control that raging temper." Ms Houlder said she had been sexually abused as a child and struggled for decades with depression, but it was not until her recent BPD diagnosis that her mind and behaviours started to make sense. "I've suffered my whole life. BPD is a debilitating condition; it gives you a different outlook on what is and isn't socially acceptable behaviour," she said. What is a personality disorder? If you or anyone you know needs help: A person may be diagnosed with a personality disorder if they exhibit pathological personality traits, behaviours and thoughts that consistently impair their functioning and deviate from societal expectations. There are 10 different personality disorders recognised by the recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). These include BPD, narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), antisocial personality disorder (APD), along with paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, histrionic, avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders. Despite seeing several psychiatrists and trying a raft of medications, nothing helped Ms Houlder and people lost patience with her, which ultimately meant she lost contact with her children and her friends. "People don't understand why you aren't getting better from mental illness when you are seeing a psychiatrist and taking medication. But medication doesn't fix it [a personality disorder]," she said. BPD makes it hard for a person to feel comfortable in their own skin and mind, which creates challenges around being able to control emotions, impulses and relating to others. "You don't make great choices," Ms Houlder said. "With friends or situations, you allow things to happen to you that is not normal but may seem normal to you." Help is out there External Link:Stephanie shares her story of living with depression and a personality disorder. A collaborative project based in Wollongong on the south coast of New South Wales has been offering a different approach to supporting people living with personality disorders. Project Air was developed by the University of Wollongong in partnership with the NSW Department of Health and NSW Local Health Districts. The project has been running since 2011, providing tailored treatment and support for patients, families and carers, as well as ongoing training for schools, health services, clinicians and support agencies. Through upskilling, consultation and research, Project Air is assisting to provide better treatments for personality disorders and more streamlined pathways to provide people living with a personality disorder with the help they need. "One in four mental health patients that present at hospital have a personality disorder, so every hospital needs a specific place for those people and a counsellor to talk to," Project Air founder Brin Grenyer said. "Hospital care is more appropriate for people with schizophrenia, so this provides an alternative and a better way of helping people with personality disorders get the treatment that they need. "We've often found that people [with personality disorders] don't respond well to medication, to in-patient units, to emergency departments psychological therapy and compassionate care is the best." Program expanding to help more people The NSW Government has allocated an additional $5.5 million to expand Project Air to additional NSW health districts by 2020 including the Nepean Blue Mountains, Southern NSW, Murrumbidgee and Hunter New England districts. "It's giving hope to people who often feel they go in and out of hospital, not getting well," Mental Health Minister Tanya Davis said. "We've seen people get their lives back on track, commence study again [and] re-build broken family relationships. It is having a significant impact," she said. Professor Grenyer said when people got the right help, they did not need to keep coming back to emergency departments or stay in hospital. He said early intervention was key to better outcomes, so the program worked with schools, workplaces and hospitals to recognise and treat personality disorders early. Ms Davis said the amount of time patients with personality disorders spent in hospital since the program began had reduced from 14 days to five days and presentations to hospital were down by 22 per cent. The road to recovery Emma Reeves came to Project Air struggling with major depressive episodes and was diagnosed with BPD. "I've always had very, very strong emotions and difficulty controlling them," Ms Reeves said. "I'd randomly lose my temper, [was] always highly stressed and [had] high levels of anger."

Photo: Emma Reeves, 30, says Project Air has given her a new lease on life after years trying to cope with borderline personality disorder. (ABC News: Chloe Hart) Ms Reeves said during a major life event she reached her breaking point. "My mother passed away [and] I was losing my grip on reality and how to control my grief." Ms Reeves said from a young age she began using food as a coping mechanism to handle her emotions. "I would eat to cope. When I was angry I'd eat, if I was sad I'd eat," she said. When she reached 190 kilograms Ms Reeves had surgery, which resulted in her losing more than a third of her body weight, but her mental health continued to spiral out of control and she sought help from Project Air. "It really has helped me. Some people think going to a psychologist means you only go there and talk. It's not like that," she said. "Coming here for therapy has pulled me out of some very dark places when I've been at my lowest points." Ms Reeves said she was thrilled that "finally" at 30 years old she was feeling well enough to get out and experience life to the fullest. "There's a voice in the back of my head that says, 'It's about bloody time'." Professor Grenyer said people with personality disorders were often misunderstood in society, but there was hope. "Given the right care, people with personality disorders can be treated and live really productive lives," he said. With the NSW expansion of Project Air, the team behind the project said it would continue to be able to support people with personality disorders and see good clinical care for the disorders established in NSW health services. Topics:mental-health,doctors-and-medical-professionals,medical-research,suicide,eating-disorders,adolescent-health,psychology,family,wollongong-2500,yass-2582,queanbeyan-2620,pambula-2549,moruya-2537,goulburn-2580,delegate-2633,crookwell-2583,cooma-2630,wingham-2429,werris-creek-2341,wee-waa-2388,warialda-2402,walcha-2354,tingha-2369,tenterfield-2372,taree-2430,tamworth-2340,singleton-2330,scone-2337,quirindi-2343,nelson-bay-2315,narrabri-2390,murrurundi-2338,moree-2400,merriwa-2329,manilla-2346,maitland-2320,new-lambton-heights-2305,kurri-kurri-2327,inverell-2360,guyra-2365,gunnedah-2380,gloucester-2422,glen-innes-2370,emmaville-2371,dungog-2420,denman-2328,cessnock-2325,bulahdelah-2423,boggabri-2382,braidwood-2622,bingara-2404,belmont-2280,barraba-2347,armidale-2350,bombala-2632,bega-2550,batemans-bay-2536,portland-2847,albury-2640,tumbarumba-2653,batlow-2730,adelong-2729,tumut-2720,gundagai-2722,harden-2587,boorowa-2586,wyalong-2671,temora-2666,cootamundra-2590,coolamon-2701,henty-2658,holbrook-2644,culcairn-2660,corowa-2646,berrigan-2712,urana-2645,lockhart-2656,narrandera-2700,leeton-2705,jerilderie-2716,finley-2713,tocumwal-2714,deniliquin-2710,barham-2732,hay-2711,sydney-2000,hillston-2675,lake-cargelligo-2672,young-2594,murrumburrah-2587,university-of-wollongong-2522,keiraville-2500,lithgow-2790,springwood-2777,kingswood-2747,windsor-2756,katoomba-2780,wagga-wagga-2650,newcastle-2300,penrith-2750,griffith-2680 First posted July 29, 2018 06:30:55 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-29/inside-the-mind-of-someone-with-borderline-personality-disorder/10044920

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