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Borderline Personality Disorder for Dummies

Written by: Charles H. Elliott, Laura L. Smith
Narrated by: Suzie Althens
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Your clear, compassionate guide to managing BPD - and living well.

Looking for straightforward information on Borderline Personality Disorder? This easy-to-understand guide helps those who have BPD develop strategies for breaking the destructive cycle. This audiobook also aids loved ones in accepting the disorder and offering support. Inside you'll find authoritative details on the causes of BPD and proven treatments, as well as advice on working with therapists, managing symptoms, and enjoying a full life.

  • Review the basics of BPD - discover the symptoms of BPD and the related emotional problems, as well as the cultural, biological, and psychological causes of the disease
  • Understand what goes wrong - explore impulsivity, emotional dysregulation, identity problems, relationship conflicts, black-and-white thinking, and difficulties in perception; and identify the areas where you may need help
  • Make the choice to change - find the right care provider, overcome common obstacles to change, set realistic goals, and improve your physical and emotional state
  • Evaluate treatments for BPD - learn about the current treatments that really work and develop a plan for addressing the core symptoms of BPD
  • If someone you love has BPD - see how to identify triggers, handle emotional upheavals, set clear boundaries, and encourage your loved one to seek therapy
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Ch. 22 "befriending people with BPD" is offensive. It makes pwBPD sound like monsters, and encourages people to get away asap.. Im here trying to help myself, and this is the encouragement I get.. I'm offended. Thanks a lot.

Ch. 22 is offensive to pwBPD.

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reading itself was very well done. book itself was ok. informative but ventures off topic at many points throughout

reading gitself was very well done.

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I'm still learning about BPD, but this book feels like a cold overview of the basics and leaves out the experience of having BPD and what that can be like. However, I did learn a couple of new things.

cold view of BPD

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It felt like there are two pieces of advice in this book.
if you have BPD, get help. if you don't have BPD, have very little to do with people who do have it.
hopefully no one I know reads this book, something something fear of abandonment.
it is really more complicated than that, or more nuanced, but that, I feel, is the meat and potatoes of the book.

makes me worry

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