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You know it’s a good book when you’re cajoling yourself into reading it

This book could stand to lose about 2/3 of the examples. It’s all so trite— and strangely Freudian. The black-and-white narrative is useful to understand the borderline individual, but at this point in the book all of these examples are both glaring and gratuitous

So far we’ve tried to determine a reason for BPD, ran briefly through symptoms, and now are exploring the SET-UP method of intervention; my big problem with this book so far is that all the examples used feel too extreme, yes BPD is a dehabilitating illness, but not every example of a symptom or hypothetical needs to be brought to the macabre extreme to illustrate that

This book consumes my every waking moment

Just finished a brief history, from felony to the invention of race, and the creation of the modern caste— and now the war on drugs

Holy shit the chapter in hallucinogens is so long

Don’t lick the frog

Yikes this is dense

So far so good! I’m using this book to cite in my paper on toxic masculinity, but kept going after the fact because Brown’a work is riveting