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 : 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
Edition: 1
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
Studio: New Harbinger Publications




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Book Description:
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.



Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Life enhancing
Thank goodness i have this book. it helps me keep my sanity and my boundaries. I always find another great point to keep me going since i can only change myself. My husband and I both find the book insightful and exactly right on regarding the borderlines in our life.



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Hello!
Introduced me to a mental problem that I had observd but didn't know was considered by the psychology world. Ideas for coping were much appreciated.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A must read for all nonbps
This is a very well written, easy to read book. For myself, I think the comments from BPs really helped me to distance myselfs from my wife's verbal attacks. It really helps to remember that BPs are reacting out of panic, or raging at something within themselves, and those around them are, in a sense, caught in the crossfire.



Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Curdled knowledge, way past it's expiration date.
There is a diverse variety of BPD types and even more combinations of subtypes or coexisting disorders that can make up the BPD spectrum. It is way too easy to generalize and only view this disorder in an extreme spectrum....and in the process, view it very wrong. This book comes out of the starting gate generalizing the BP way too much in a "worst case" scenario.

I understand this books mission, and it was a noble undertaking. But I think it can do more harm than good. So many good ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Joe's
It took me 53 years to understand that my mother has Borderline Disorder. What a great book for an average person to understand what was really going on. Highly recommended.







 






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