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Thank you. I am getting away from the BP person in my life, and working towards rebuilding my life. I could not understand how a family could be so horrible to each other and why the never ending need for pretend. I now understand, my mantra is I didn't cause this, I can't control this and I can't cure this. This book has restored my self-esteem and I am on the path to a safe, sane and happy life.
I was finding it difficult to cope with them. This person is a close family member and important to me and I now am a much more understanding person. This book has opened up my eyes to a problem I have with a family member. The book showed many ways of handling this and my understanding of this has helped my relationship with this person.
I WOULD REALLY LIKE YOU TO SEND THE BOOK TO ME OR SEARCH TO FIND OUT WHY i DID NOT RECIEVE IT. I NEVER RECIEVED MY BOOK. THANK YOU
It goes into greatdetail about the borderline personality disorder, whether you are one, a daughter or son ofparents that have this disorder and also the people you work with that might be borderlines.Books like these are not easy to read because it reaches you heart and soul and thatcan be painful. Excellent book This is one of the best book written so far for therapiest as well as layperson. But one can take their life back.
It smacked of multi-level marketing seminars where they keep trying to rope you in to buy additional manuals and stuff and you keep hoping that the next one you buy will be the REAL one, the one with all the stuff you're really after.My advice: don't buy this book. My wife has BPD. Okay, now imagine an ENTIRE BOOK made up of nothing but high-level introductory overview material. In a sense, it was like reading a term paper written by a high school student who started the paper at 10 pm the night before it was due and compensated for the lack of material by triple-spacing each page. In the meanwhile, though, I went into this book hoping to learn some coping strategies to help myself help her and try to minimize the amount of time we spent in pointless arguments and fights.Didn't get any of that. But I DID get endless, endless self-references to the authors' other works. As I read it, I kept waiting for the authors to say "OKAY, now that we've done the overview, let's really get into the meat of the material" and you know what. The entire book was superficial, general, generic, devoid of specifics or any kind of organizational structure that would help tie it all together.
Unlike a lot of BPD people, she knows she has BPD. They self-cite their other books on average about once every five pages. You know how, when you're reading a book, the beginning of a chapter will often consist of an overview, some talking points, maybe a high-level overview of the material to be covered in more depth in the remainder of the chapter. They NEVER DID. What she doesn't have are strategies for dealing with it, and maybe, if we're lucky, we'll find a mental health professional who can walk her through a program of DBT (Dialectical behavior therapy).
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