Why I Triple Text: A Guide for Understanding Your Borderline Personality Disorder Diagnosis and Improving Your Relationships

by Alexis Sands

One of the only self-help books on borderline personality disorder written specifically for borderlines by a borderline! Why I Triple Text is a comprehensive guide to help people with BPD better understand their complex diagnosis. From a first-hand perspective, learn about treatment options, coping strategies, and communication skills to improve interpersonal relationships. Written by an author with BPD, this book is borderline-centric, defying the stereotypes as well as embracing the creative sides of the disorder. Drawing from her personal experiences and background in psychology, Sands breaks down Criteria A from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) into easy-to-digest segments. Why I Triple Text explains research-based approaches to treatment, describes a variety of real-life coping strategies, and includes practical workbook pages to strengthen and enhance interpersonal relationships. Highlights

160 pages, Paperback

Published October 3, 2020

About the author

Alexis Sands is an own voices author, single-mom, drinker of too much coffee, obsessive cleaner, expert at starting over, and a master at building walls. Her debut novel, much like the author herself, doesn’t conform to traditional rules. Slated doesn’t fit into a cookie-cutter mold of the new adult or erotic romance genres.

As a mental health awareness advocate, she's passionate about striving for more authentic representations of characters in fiction that suffer from a mental illness.

Slated is her debut novel and Book One in the Blurred Borders Series. The character-driven series portrays the transformation of a divisive protagonist struggling with BPD on her journey to find the one!