Books : Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.85852
EAN: 9781572241084
ISBN: 157224108X
Label: New Harbinger Publications
Manufacturer: New Harbinger Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 1998-07
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Sales Rank: 1038
Studio: New Harbinger Publications
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Stop Walking on Eggshells: Coping When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder is a self-help guide that helps the family members and friends of individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) understand this self-destructive disorder and learn what they can do to cope with it and take care of themselves. It is designed to help them understand how the disorder affects their loved ones and recognize what they can do to get off the emotional roller coasters and take care of themselves.
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This is one of my favorite books. I'm very familiar/educated on a lot of this emotional stuff and I've never thrown around 5stars haphazardly. This book is full of really good useful knowledge. However, that doesn't mean that every single page or every single line will apply to your particular situation. I think that often people expect a book to be written directly for them personally. That's not likely to happen. This book is excellent. It's an excellent reference for this disorder. I'm also going to recommend Tao Cycle Therapy, by Sarah Shikitao-Brown. Her book is a good companion to this one and an excellent method for the emotional management of this and other disorders. Tao Cycle Therapy: Natural Happiness via Self Directed Cure for Chronic Anxiety & Depression [Updated 2008 3nd Edition]
- Jane Stevens
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Don't struggle: read this book.
It provides a plethora of tips and example that fit well with the character of a BPD, but that applies to many other behaviors. You will discover that you are not crazy and it will help you in the journey to a better relationship in a caring way.
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I would give this book five stars for research alone, but all of these books regarding Borderline Personality Disorder seem to be inter-plagiarized amongst themselves with the same research and facts and only a smattering of examples of adults who still suffer the consequences of growing up with a Borderline parent.It is both laughable AND nauseating to read how we should be "calm" while in the throes of being pummeled, beaten, slammed against walls, having our hair torn out, being shoved onto the floor and the relentless SCREAMING. I TRULY would like to see any of the authors of these books act in a "calm" fashion while being repeatedly smashed to bits on a daily basis. I am sorry to find out, 41 years too late, that my mother suffers from BPD; it took 41 years for me to become friends with a young woman who diagnosed my mother. After that, I frantically purchased this book and two others and the "coping" suggestions are completely ridiculous. The only thing/s the authors get correctly is that we are guilted into never leaving these horrible parents. In MY case, my mother has repeatedly threatened to kill me, jeopardized relationships with boyfriends, bosses and landlords, and screamed at me until I felt certain I would go deaf. Yes, I have remained calm, but having my head slammed repeatedly against walls, banisters and doors, as well as my integrity, emotions, feelings and reputation being equally pummeled by a nonstop barrage of insults, accusations and commentary has ... Read More
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I haven't finished the book yet but so far the information I have read has proved very useful.
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The thing I like most about this book is how it breaks down and explains the thought process of a BP. I constantly found myself thinking, "DAMN, that's exactly what she does!" However, this book should come with a warning label that reads, "WARNING: The Borderline Personality in your life may react violently when they see you purchased this book." Anyway, it helped me to understand the illness, but my now ex-wife was so against breaking the cycle, she allowed the evil, manipulation and physical violence towards me to just get totally unbearable.
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