Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a mental illness characterized by a long-term pattern of unstable relationships, a distorted sense of self, and strong emotional reactions. There is often self-harm and other dangerous behavior. People may also struggle with a feeling of emptiness, fear of abandonment, and detachment from reality. Symptoms may be triggered by seemingly normal actions from others. The behavior typically begins by early adulthood and occurs across a variety of situations. Substance abuse, depression, and eating disorders are commonly associated with BPD. Up to 10% of people affected die by suicide.

OTTO KERNBERG - Borderline Personality Disorder & How It's Different from a Mood Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder... What is it?
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
What Causes Borderline Personality Disorder?
On the line: Living with borderline personality disorder
Let's Talk About... Borderline Personality Disorder
Pure and Complex Borderline Personality Disorder
What Is Borderline Personality Disorder | BetterHelp
What It's Like to Live With Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
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Borderline personality disorder demystified: an essential guide for understanding and living with bpdRobert O. FriedelFor those who have been diagnosed and those who think they may have the illness, and for the family and friends who love and support them, this book illuminates new information and points the way to an ever more hopeful future.Borderline personality disorder in adolescents: what to do when your teen has bpd: a complete guide for familiesBlaise A. AguirreThis book offers parents, caregivers, and adolescents themselves a complete understanding of this complex and tough-to-treat disorder. It is a comprehensive guide which thoroughly explains what BPD is and what a patient’s treatment options are, including an overview of the revolutionary new treatment called dialectic behavior therapy. Author Blaise A. Aguirre, M.D., an expert in the field, describes recent advances in treatments and brings into focus what we know, and don’t know, about this condition.Borderline Personality Disorder: The hidden faces of BPD that you need to spot. How to manage out of control emotions before they destroy your relationshipDavid Lawson PhDAre you trapped in a toxic relationship? Have you been led to believe that it’s you who’s always wrong? Are uncontrolled emotions isolating you and destroying everything they touch? Are you afraid of what will happen if you decide to break out of your relationship? Being in a relationship with a person who has a borderline personality means living a love-hate relationship that’s obsessive, complicated and unstable. Unfortunately, these kinds of relationships can be particularly difficult to escape from. However long the relationship has lasted, a relationship with a person who has BPD typically creates a destabilizing impact on the psyche of those who live with it, and leaves emotional wounds that are very difficult to heal. Sadly, sometimes, these relationships produce more than just psychological wounds. Stalking, threats and physical violence are all possibilities when a person breaks up with someone who has a serious borderline personality disorder. Threats of suicide, self-harm or even revenge attempts are all common issues in such situations. Sufferers of BPD live at the limit, they are acrobats in a precarious balance on a razor’s edge. This book is essential reading if, in the last three months, a person that you are close to has been overwhelmed by: Anxiety, depression and anger, often for reasons that others find difficult to understand or that they consider inconsequential. Intense or uncontrollable emotional explosions. Instability in interpersonal relationships and self-esteem. Concerns about abandonment. Desperate feelings of being misunderstood. Feelings of powerlessness and despair. Ideas about self-harm and/or suicide. Doubts about themselves and their sanity. DO THE FOLLOWING SYMPTOMS PLAY FAMILIES? A person who comes into close contact with a sufferer of BPD will, over time, be exposed to a variety of manipulative behaviours. Normally the BPD sufferer will use sophisticated manipulation techniques in order to decline even the most minor of life’s responsibilities. To put it briefly, as suggested by one of my readers, " BPD people put their entire lives in your hands and then blame you and punish you if something goes wrong ." BPD is a black hole of attention and affection. Nothing can fill this void. The person closest to the BPD victim can experience the following feelings that prevent that person from moving away from their BPD: They will feel used and manipulated. They will be forced to sacrifice their personal needs in a dedicated existence, devoted to the sufferer of BPD. Concern about what will happen to the BPD sufferer if I leave. How will the BPD sufferer react to a break up?  Will they try to self-harm or commit suicide? If I abandon the BPD sufferer, then ‘I am the bad person’ who has been selfish, and disregarded him, so what he says is true. There are many other situations that are listed within this book. Knowing the right information allows you to limit the damage and avoid unnecessary suffering. This book is not the solution to all your problems, but I GUARANTEE that if you read and carefully review all the chapters of this book, ABSORB all the tips and finally APPLY the techniques provided by this manual, you will immediately feel a feeling of relief and you will have all the tools you need to rebuild a relaxed and peaceful life. Take control of your life by clicking the BUY NOW button at the top of this page.Hard to love: understanding and overcoming male borderline personality disorderJoseph NowinskiBorderline Personality Disorder (BPD) in men is often misdiagnosed and typically leads to either no treatment or the wrong treatment. This is the first book to address this under-recognized problem. It contains symptoms and causes, as well as treatment, targeted to men who suffer from BPD.Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder: How to Keep Out-of-Control Emotions from Destroying Your RelationshipShari Y. Manning, Marsha M. LinehanPeople with borderline personality disorder (BPD) can be intensely caring, warm, smart, and funny―but their behavior often drives away those closest to them. If you're struggling in a tumultuous relationship with someone with BPD, this is the book for you. Dr. Shari Manning helps you understand why your spouse, family member, or friend has such out-of-control emotions―and how to change the way you can respond. Learn to use simple yet powerful strategies that can defuse crises, establish better boundaries, and radically transform your relationship. Empathic, hopeful, and science based, this is the first book for family and friends grounded in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), the most effective treatment for BPD.Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder: A Family Guide for Healing and ChangeValerie PorrBPD is a potentially devastating mental disorder characterized by unstable moods, negative self-image, and dangerous impulsivity. Many people with BPD excel in academics and careers while revealing erratic, self-destructive, and sometimes violent behavior only to those with whom they are intimate. Others have trouble simply holding down a job or staying in school. It is believed that suicide claims about one in ten people with BPD. Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder: A Family Guide for Healing and Change is a compassionate, informative, and reassuring guide to understanding this profoundly unsettling - and widely misunderstood - mental illness, believed to affect 2-3% of the general population. Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder offers families and loved ones supportive guidance that both validates the difficulties they face and shows how they can be overcome. Rather than viewing people with BPD as manipulative opponents in a bitter struggle, or pitying them as emotional invalids, this book argues that BPD is in fact a true neurobiological disorder. It clearly explains what BPD is, which therapies have proven most effective, and how to overcome the stigma associated with the disorder. The book teaches concerned family members effective coping behaviors and interpersonal skills, such as new ways of talking about emotions, building awareness of nonverbal communication, and validating difficult experiences. These skills are derived from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Mentalization Therapy, two evidence-based treatments that have proven highly successful in reducing family conflict and aggressive incidents in the home, while increasing hope and trust. Providing accessible explanations of cutting-edge neurobiological research, Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder takes a fundamentally different approach to the disorder: an empowering and hopeful guide to increasing understanding of the BPD experience--and to making use of that understanding in day-to-day interactions.Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality DisorderPaul T. T. Mason MS, Randi KregerIsn't it time you stopped walking on eggshells? Learn how with this fully revised and updated third edition of a self-help classic-now with more than one million copies sold! Do you feel manipulated, controlled, or lied to? Are you the focus of intense, violent, and irrational rages? Do you feel you are 'walking on eggshells' to avoid the next confrontation? If the answer is 'yes,' someone you care about may have borderline personality disorder (BPD)-a mood disorder that causes negative self-image, emotional instability, and difficulty with interpersonal relationships. Stop Walking on Eggshells has already helped more than a million people with friends and family members suffering from BPD understand this difficult disorder, set boundaries, and help their loved ones stop relying on dangerous BPD behaviors. This fully revised third edition has been updated with the very latest BPD research on comorbidity, extensive new information about narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), the effectiveness of schema therapy, and coping and communication skills you can use to stabilize your relationship with the BPD or NPD sufferer in your life. This compassionate guide will enable you to: • Make sense out of the chaos • Stand up for yourself and assert your needs • Defuse arguments and conflicts • Protect yourself and others from violent behavior If you're ready to bring peace and stability back into your life, this time-tested guide will show you how, one confident step at a time.Talking to a loved one with borderline personality disorderJerold J. KreismanPeople with BPD often feel anger, pain, and hurt from a history of invalidation and disappointment, and their difficulty in regulating emotions can lead to moments of lashing out that can confuse and upset those around them. If you have a loved one with BPD, you need real, proven-effective strategies to help you navigate the intense emotions and conflict that can arise in daily interactions and conversations.The Big Book on Borderline Personality DisorderShehrina RooneyContrary to popular belief, borderline personality disorder is NOT a life sentence! If you live with borderline personality disorder (BPD), you already know how painful it can be. But take heart – recovery is possible! The Big Book on Borderline Personality Disorder offers advice from someone who’s been there and speaks from inside BPD, with empathy, care and insight. Author Shehrina Rooney shrugs off the stigma, busts myths, and translates the diagnostic criteria into everyday language. She explains the brain science of emotion dysregulation and shares her favorite strategies and skills for weathering the storm. The Big Book on Borderline Personality Disorder includes special chapters for family and loved ones, men with BPD, and anyone newly diagnosed. The author gives readers strategies for coping with BPD in the workplace and as a parent. In short, this book covers everything you (or your parents or therapist) could possibly want to know about BPD. This book gives you the information and tools to reclaim your life. With warmth and humor, Shehrina Rooney shows you how you can find contentment, stability, and the freedom to enjoy each day as it comes.The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know About Living with BPDAlexander L. Chapman PhD RPsych, Kim L. Gratz PhD, Perry D Hoffman PhDIf you or someone you love is struggling with borderline personality disorder (BPD), you need up-to-date, accurate, and accessible information on the problems you're facing and where you can turn for help. But where do you look? Much of the professional literature on BPD is too technical and confusing to be of much help. And searching the Internet for accurate information can be treacherous, with some sites providing useful information and others giving dangerous advice and misinformation. Ifyou're living with BPD, this compassionate book offers what you really need: an easy-to-follow road map to guide you through this disorder and its treatment. This book provides answers to many of the questions you might have about BPD: What is BPD? How long does it last? What other problems co-occur with BPD? Overviews of what we currently know about BPD make up the first section of the book. Later chapters cover several common treatment approaches to BPD: DBT, mentalization-based treatment (MBT), and medication treatments. In the last sections of the book, you'll learn a range of useful coping skills that can help you manage your emotions, deal with suicidal thoughts, and cope with some of the most distressing symptoms of BPD. This book has been awarded The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Self-Help Seal of Merit - an award bestowed on outstanding self-help books that are consistent with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) principles and that incorporate scientifically tested strategies for overcoming mental health difficulties. Used alone or in conjunction with therapy, our books offer powerful tools readers can use to jump-start changes in their lives.The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook: An Integrative Program to Understand and Manage Your BPDDaniel J. Fox PhDIntroducing a breakthrough, integrative approach to managing your borderline personality disorder (BPD). If you've been diagnosed with BPD you may feel a number of emotions-including shock, shame, sadness, abandonment, emptiness, or even anger. Even worse, you may be tempted to research your diagnosis online, only to find doomsday scenarios and terrible prognoses everywhere you click. Take a deep breath. You can get through this-and this workbook will help guide you. Despite what you may have read or been told, BPD is not the worst thing that can happen to you. Like many mental health issues, it manifests on a spectrum, and while some people may encounter extreme symptoms and consequences on one end, others may be less affected on the other. What do you all have in common? You likely experience difficulty balancing your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. And you may even have trouble seeing yourself clearly-continuously switching from the hero to the villain of the story you've written about your life. So, how can you make sense of it all and start on the road to healing? Rather than utilizing a one-size-fits-all treatment, this groundbreaking and comprehensive workbook meets you where you are on your therapeutic journey, and provides an integrative approach to treating BPD drawing on evidence-based dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and interpersonal therapy. With this compassionate workbook, you'll gain a greater understanding of your BPD, uncover your own emotional triggers, and discover your own personal motivators for positive change. Your BPD has determined how you see and live your life, but it doesn't have to define you forever. With this workbook as your guide, you'll be ready to face your diagnosis head-on, and take those important first steps toward lasting wellness.The mindfulness solution for intense emotions: take control of borderline personality disorder with dbtCedar R. Koons.In this book, you’ll learn seven skills that highlight the unique connection between mindfulness and emotion regulation. Each skill is designed to help you find focus in the present moment, reduce impulsive behavior, and increase a sense of connection to your true self, even during times of extreme stress or difficulty.When your daughter has bpd: essential skills to help families manage borderline personality disorderDaniel S. LobelFor parents with a child suffering from borderline personality disorder (BPD), behavior and relational challenges can be heartbreaking. In this groundbreaking book for parents of adult daughters with BPD, psychologist Daniel Lobel offers essential skills based in proven-effective dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help readers understand their daughter’s disorder, set appropriate boundaries, put an end to daily emergencies, and rebuild the family’s structure from the ground up.

Borderline Personality Disorder... What is it?

Let's Talk About... Borderline Personality Disorder

On the line: Living with borderline personality disorder

OTTO KERNBERG - Borderline Personality Disorder & How It's Different from a Mood Disorder

Pure and Complex Borderline Personality Disorder

What Causes Borderline Personality Disorder?

What Is Borderline Personality Disorder | BetterHelp

What is Borderline Personality Disorder?

What is Borderline Personality Disorder?

What It's Like to Live With Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)