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 - Worth the readI've never been one for self-help books or anything like that. It was more painful to attempt to read it than just deal w/ issues myself. This book is actually not difficult at all to read and understand the emotional issues surrounding people w/ BPD. The examples, for the most part, are the most extreme cases, but it's a book... they give you support sites in the back that are incredibly helpful and more of a day to day type resource than the book is. I found the book to be full of useful strategies and information that I'm working on trying to perfect. The book gives you a basis of where to start when dealing w/ someone w/ this personality disorder. Rating:  - The book is helpfulIf you could hate a book or love a book, it's all just paper and ink. There are ideas contained in your intrupation of the arrangement of letter on the pages. In my frame of refferance I found my interpation of what I think the autors are saying helpful. I found the experance of the ideas created in my mind (by me) after reading this book to be helpful in my research of myself and in helping me find my own excellance. I found this book a very help tool in my own self help and in understand and disclosing to my self the self defeating I was involved in and how I was allowing my self to be disempowered. I discovered my own particaption in my own sufferings and how I needless and relentless stayed in an unhealthy relationship hopeing it would get better with out giving it any effort. I have also found all the reviews VERY entertaing when considering the paradime of the book and the backgrounds of the writers. Good luck to you all. JML ( I use "I" alot in my review and appologise for that, but really my thoughts are all about me aren't they !!) I am sorry so many people voted me as a bad person with an unhelpful review. I was just trying to be humorious to prove that I fell better. Perhaps the votes against me are more a reaction to my lack of funny-ness. Rating: - Enlightening and Encouraging, but Falls a Little ShortThis book is well written, well organized and, while not dumbed down in any way, easy to understand. Written in mostly laymen's language, it makes sense of the nearly incomprehensible actions of those that suffer from borderline personality disorder. The authors neither condemn nor attack the sufferers, presenting the material in a compassionate and objective manner. The included letters from those suffering from BPD do more to illuminate the thinking and feelings of BPD sufferers than any book on the subject I have so far read. The authors provide helpful guidelines to assist non-BPDs in dealing with the BPDs in their lives. While the guidelines are good, they could be much better. The knock on those with BPD is that they haven't learned how to manage their emotions -- that they are too emotional. The opposite is more accurate -- they're repressing too much. Non-BPDs in relationships should be encouraging those w/ BPD to express their feelings and to resist the temptation to act out. Rating: - Book ReviewThis book is helpful in understanding personality disorders and how to manage your life despite them. Rating: - Saved me as a personFor over three years I allowed my BPD partner to change the person I was; she objected to me whistling, walking to loud on the floor, flew into a rage if a steak knife was in the wrong place, etc. The slightest thing would set her off. I thought that it was me. The harder I tried, the more demanding and irrational she became. The book helped me understand many of the things I was having to deal with; it wasn't me, it was simply about her and inability and unwillingness to deal with her BPD. It allowed me to reclaim myself. I'm now in the process of recaliming my life. GAW In association with Amazon.com | |