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Borderline Personality Disorder Anthology
Do you or someone you care about have the mental affliction known as Borderline Personality Disorder? Do you have questions that only someone who actually suffers from BPD can really answer?
This combined anthology of authors gives you a fascinating fly-on-the-wall look at FIVE real life BPD sufferers, narrating their own BPD journeys (although one actually questions her diagnosis, and tells you why in Chapter 3). They describe in sometimes graphic detail such things as the physical and emotional pain that they have inflicted on themselves as well as those closest to them, the bottomless pit of depression that they often fell into (sometimes to the brink of suicide), and even some devastating examples of losing their children due to being seen as unstable or unfit to take care of the children, in other people's eyes.
With the pain, however, each author also puts forth hope. They each have found ways to cope, and in a couple of cases, even heal their constant emotional torment, and they share those strategies with the reader.
Though they live different lives, you will notice various similarities in their stories, bound by the threads of common BPD symptoms. If you are a BPD sufferer, or think you might be, you will at the very least discover that you are not alone.
Some of the questions that our BPD authors will answer for you (among many others) are:
- What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
- What happens to you when you have it?
- Is it possible to be misdiagnosed as having BPD, when you really don't? (see Chapter 3)
- What's it like trying to maintain relationships (family, romantic, friendships) when you have BPD?
- Is BPD curable and how long does it last?
- Can BPD sufferers actually become a danger to themselves and others?
- Is there a "cause" that brings about BPD in people?
- Were there differences between the BPD authors and other children when they were growing up?
- What strategies and treatments work best when trying to cure/control BPD (see especially Chapter 5 - Julia's story)
People with Borderline Personality are basically like everyone else when their emotions are in check. It's when their emotions erupt that all hell can break loose and/or poor decisions are made. Find out what happens to our five authors and what (if anything) they each have done to help themselves get out of their own personal hell.
This combined anthology of authors gives you a fascinating fly-on-the-wall look at FIVE real life BPD sufferers, narrating their own BPD journeys (although one actually questions her diagnosis, and tells you why in Chapter 3). They describe in sometimes graphic detail such things as the physical and emotional pain that they have inflicted on themselves as well as those closest to them, the bottomless pit of depression that they often fell into (sometimes to the brink of suicide), and even some devastating examples of losing their children due to being seen as unstable or unfit to take care of the children, in other people's eyes.
With the pain, however, each author also puts forth hope. They each have found ways to cope, and in a couple of cases, even heal their constant emotional torment, and they share those strategies with the reader.
Though they live different lives, you will notice various similarities in their stories, bound by the threads of common BPD symptoms. If you are a BPD sufferer, or think you might be, you will at the very least discover that you are not alone.
Some of the questions that our BPD authors will answer for you (among many others) are:
- What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
- What happens to you when you have it?
- Is it possible to be misdiagnosed as having BPD, when you really don't? (see Chapter 3)
- What's it like trying to maintain relationships (family, romantic, friendships) when you have BPD?
- Is BPD curable and how long does it last?
- Can BPD sufferers actually become a danger to themselves and others?
- Is there a "cause" that brings about BPD in people?
- Were there differences between the BPD authors and other children when they were growing up?
- What strategies and treatments work best when trying to cure/control BPD (see especially Chapter 5 - Julia's story)
People with Borderline Personality are basically like everyone else when their emotions are in check. It's when their emotions erupt that all hell can break loose and/or poor decisions are made. Find out what happens to our five authors and what (if anything) they each have done to help themselves get out of their own personal hell.
184 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 12, 2013
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September 12, 2017
The last chapter is the best.
As a BPD suffer I know how horribly sad it is to know this disease says with you for life (in this system of things) but the last chapter of this book really spoke to me, encouraged me, and gave me hope. If you truly interested in borderline personality disorder or know someone who is suffering the last chapter of this book is the best one to read. The reason this gets a 3 is because the other chapters were okay. Didn't really get help out of it the way I did with the last one. It is always nice to know though that you aren't alone in your suffering with this disease.
As a BPD suffer I know how horribly sad it is to know this disease says with you for life (in this system of things) but the last chapter of this book really spoke to me, encouraged me, and gave me hope. If you truly interested in borderline personality disorder or know someone who is suffering the last chapter of this book is the best one to read. The reason this gets a 3 is because the other chapters were okay. Didn't really get help out of it the way I did with the last one. It is always nice to know though that you aren't alone in your suffering with this disease.
March 4, 2015
Good Book Overall...
While this is a good book overall, Annie still seems deeply in denial of her diagnosis. She argues and tries to convince the reader her original doctor misdiagnosed her, but it's obvious from all her stories she shares her doctor correctly diagnosed her.
While this is a good book overall, Annie still seems deeply in denial of her diagnosis. She argues and tries to convince the reader her original doctor misdiagnosed her, but it's obvious from all her stories she shares her doctor correctly diagnosed her.
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