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Summary: A Great Help
Review: Before I begin, let me say that I do not suffer from BPD, and can only guess at the anguish associated with this disorder. I have noticed that several BPD sufferers have great issue with this book, and I thoroughly respect that.For me, however, it was an enormous help. I found it recommended on a website with information on Borderline Personality Disorder. I had just ended a very painful and confusing relationship with a person I suspected might have BPD, and I wanted more information as a layperson, to heal myself, not him (it was too late in our relationship for that). I had experienced the "I hate you, don't leave me" syndrome with him repeatedly, until finally it became simply "I hate you." I was doubting myself, confused, angry, hurt--the works. This book put things in perspective for me in a way I could understand. I am philosophically opposed to "self-help" books, but in this case, I used the book as a tool to help me heal from my failed relationship. My copy of this book is dogeared, underlined, there are my comments scribbled in the margins, and notes to myself are on the endflaps. Recently, I dug out the book and reread it. I still found it an enormous and enlightening help. Therefore, I recommend the book highly to those who need a place to begin in understanding BPD. It is too simplistic to be exhaustive, but it provides enough information, for me at least, to know where to go to seek more depth.
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Summary: Good, but outdated...
Review: This book is a very insightful one for me. It was the first book that I could read and truly feel like it understood how I felt. Now, some of the things in the book are outdated, especially the references to DSM-III, because now there is the DSM-IV. Also some of the diseases have been renamed. This book is a great book for any Borderline or friend/family member of a Borderline. Definitely go out and get this book!
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Summary: Finally, A Simple Answer!
Review: This book finally made sense of the "insanity" I was experiencing! After reading many self-help books and spending many hours talking to "specialists" and getting more unhappy with myself, I found this little book that put everything in prospective and explained what was wrong with me and did it in a very simple way without making me feel that I was mentally "sick"! It gave me hope by helping me understand myself in a way that I have never experienced before. Thank you!!
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Summary: Terrible
Review: Don't read it; don't get involved with it. It's just another book written by people who don't have the slightest idea what their writing about. Don't be mislead by them, and most of all don't buy this book.
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Summary: Out of date but should be read
Review: This book presents the many medical opinions on BPD through the 1970's in an elementary and readable style, but today's therapy and medication improve the outlook presented in this book. Still, the title describes the situation PERFECTLY, and it can be easily read by family and friends (although I wouldn't recommend it to newly diagnosed BPD's), along with "Stop Walking on Eggshells" and others, when BPD enters your life. Authors: please bring out a revised edition!
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Summary: untitled
Review: My therapist lent me this book 3 years ago. Reading it upset me so much I posted it back to her. Its reference to a therapist who momentarily wished his client would just kill herself led me to believe that she wished me dead. Two weeks ago I suggested to her I may have BPD. She concurred and I asked to borrow it again. This time I found parts of it helpful eg descriptions of certain mental experiences which I had always thought of as personal quirks/difficulties. One thing I strongly objected to was the constant use of the label «the borderline»when referring to people who experience these difficulties .When you have no sense of self it is only too easy to pin your whole identity on a label,without having others do the same. I am ambiguous in my overall view of this book.Although I found parts of it informative and helpful, I was still left in tears at the end of it because of the gloomy outcome it suggestedI wouldnt recommend reading it to anyone feeling vulnerable. Great title though!......
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Summary: There's a Name for His Lunacy!
Review: This amazing little book litteraly fell off the shelf at my feet in Borders one night. The title intrigued me, so I took it home. Then it saved my life. I had begun to question not only my husband's sanity, but my own...but, this book gave me a name for it - BPD. This little book validated me. It also gave me coping methods and such a great understanding. I realized that this is an illness and I didn't have to take these behaviors personally. This book is more clinical than Stop Walking On Eggshells, but even the non-medical person should be able to gain great insight and understanding of their partner's (or parent's, or friend's, or co-worker's, etc.) behavior. The authors don't mince words. This is a difficult disorder to deal with and very difficult to live with. This book, even though I bought it, has been a huge gift for me. If the title makes sense to you, then read the book. You won't be sorry!
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Summary: A step towards coping with a loved one with BPD.
Review: This book helped me to understand why my mother overeacted to things in her life and why she thought everyone abandoned her. Even those who never left to begin with. It brought piece of mind that I wasn't the one with the problem!
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Summary: Better than you anyone could imagine
Review: Why am I writing a review of this book? - I ask myself. Because Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a mental disorder so difficult to be diagnosed and treated that writing a book about BPD and describing its features is not an easy task as someone could think. In this book, Dr. Kreisman was able to do what was thought impossible - writing about BPD to be understood by the lay person, the patient and the clinician. With good case presentations, easy to understand language and an extremely perfect insight of BPD, its difficult to say after reading this book that BPD is something hard to understand. In fact, Dr. Kreisman shaded light over what is, how to deal with, how treatments can help BPD patients and how clinicians can understand that diagnosing and treating a Borderline patient isn't that hard. Borderline Patients can be from a clinical perspective a superb challenge for the clinician due to its bordering criterias and features. With no doubts, 5 stars are the best rating for this book. - A trully trip into the Borderline Personality.
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Summary: a great layman's guide for BPD-friends and -family
Review: I found this an extremely helpful and sophisticated basic guide. Many readers seem to feel it is too negative, but for someone who feels perplexed and hopeless about life with a "borderline", it offers the reassurance that what seems like pure craziness on the part of a loved one actually corresponds to defineable complex of traits and behaviors. Loving a borderline can be a very lonely and frustrating experience, and this book offers support, insight and qualified hope in simple language, and without the annoying dumbed-down tone of most self-help books. I admit to having read it around ten years ago, and I will explore other guides recommended by readers. On the other hand, I have noticed that Prozac, Paxil, etc. don't work as an all purpose panacea for everyone with BPD. Paxil may control one symptom (borderline rage) while not alleviating another (depression, sense of worthlessness). Even if this book doesn't help borderlines themselves, I believe it does help their intimates find ways to be more creative and patient supporters and to take conflicts less personally.
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