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Borderline personality disorder affects more than 5.4 million people in the United States. The sympathetic and comprehensive information in Borderline Personality Disorder For Dummies helps those diagnosed with BPD get to the root of their condition, develop strategies for breaking the destructive cycle, and ultimately learn to live well. It discusses the best forms of treatment as well as how to find an appropriate therapist. This thorough guide is also filled with information to help spouses, parents, and other loved ones understand and accept the disease, and to offer support.
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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 book 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
Open the book and find:
The major characteristics of BPD
Who gets BPD — and why
Recent treatment advances
Illuminating case studies
Strategies for calming emotions and staying in control
A discussion of medication options
Ways to stay healthy during treatment
Tips for explaining BPD to others
Help for parents whose child exhibits symptoms
Treatment options that work and those you should avoid
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As a psychiatrist working with BPD, I have to battle everyday with service practitioners, from nurses to my own colleagues, who hold out of date and frankly immoral attitudes to a complicated and distressing illness.
To 'introduce' BPD to a readership implying that people with BPD are 'bad' and 'horrid'is immediately reinforcing popular stigma and negative bias toward a group of individuals with serious mental health conditions, who are already vulnerable enough.
As a consultant psychiatirst - NOT AS A PERSON WITH BPD - I find chapter headings such as 'sensation seeking' abhorrent and not helpful in any way, either to parent, carer or patient.
There are so many better texts out there with regards the subject of BDP, steer clear of this book.
And a note to the writers: - playing around with bias and popular, abhorrent assumptions about BPD for popular sensationlist reasons (or in other words, to sell your Dummy series) is a disgrace - YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES!
The section at the back is devoted to friends/lovers/family of BPD sufferers and I think it offers fair advice.
I don't think this book is at all critical or negative of BPD, it states the facts, as they are, without excess sympathy or judgement. It appears fully impartial.
It covers all aspects of BPD quite briefly so if you wanted to go more in depth into more specific areas you probably would want a different book. I think this is suitable for initial readers around BPD who want to gain an overview without getting too bogged down in information or emotion.
the book is great is to read you can put it down and pick it up when every you want to. Read more
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