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(3.71) | 1 | For family members of people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), home life is routinely unpredictable and frequently unbearable. Extreme mood swings, impulsive behaviors, unfair blaming and criticism, and suicidal tendencies-common conduct among those who suffer from the disorder-leave family members feeling confused, hurt, and helpless. In Stop Walking on Eggshells, Randi Kreger's pioneering first book which sold more than 340,000 copies, she and coauthor Paul T. Mason outlined the fundamental differences in the way that people with BPD relate to the world. Now, with The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder, Kreger takes listeners to the next level by offering them five straightforward tools to organize their thinking, learn specific skills, and focus on what they need to do to get off the emotional rollercoaster: (1) Take care of yourself (2) Uncover what keeps you feeling stuck (3) Communicate to be heard (4) Set limits with love (5) Reinforce the right behaviors Together the steps provide a clear-cut system designed to help friends and family reduce stress, improve their relationship with their borderline loved one, improve their problem-solving skills and minimize conflict, and feel more self-assured about setting limits.… (more) |
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When we are no longer able
to change a situation . . .
we are challenged to change ourselves.
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This book is for those who walked with me hand in hand--and sometimes carried me--in my own journey along the yellow brick road. It is also dedicated to the libraries in and around Saint Louis Park, Minnesota. The children's novels there, more precious than any ruby-red slippers, made both me and this book possible. | |
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[Foreward] 'The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder' is a very useful addition to the growing literature on 'borderline disorder'
(the term most acceptable to my patients and readers). [Acknowledgments] When someone asked a songwriter I know how long it took her to compose a song, she said, "my whole life." [About This Book] The information in this book reflects the best of three types of research: and exhaustive, three-year survey of the latest scientific studies related to borderline personality disorder (BPD), interviews with more than two dozen top mental health clinicians and researchers, and the collective experiences of thousands of people affected in one way or another by BPD. Do you feel as though you're walking on eggshells around someone important in your life? | |
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[Foreward] In "The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder" there is much to be learned by family members who are affected by loved ones with borderline disorder, and also by professionals who strive to help them. (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.) | |
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None ▾Book descriptions For family members of people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), home life is routinely unpredictable and frequently unbearable. Extreme mood swings, impulsive behaviors, unfair blaming and criticism, and suicidal tendencies-common conduct among those who suffer from the disorder-leave family members feeling confused, hurt, and helpless. In Stop Walking on Eggshells, Randi Kreger's pioneering first book which sold more than 340,000 copies, she and coauthor Paul T. Mason outlined the fundamental differences in the way that people with BPD relate to the world. Now, with The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder, Kreger takes listeners to the next level by offering them five straightforward tools to organize their thinking, learn specific skills, and focus on what they need to do to get off the emotional rollercoaster: (1) Take care of yourself (2) Uncover what keeps you feeling stuck (3) Communicate to be heard (4) Set limits with love (5) Reinforce the right behaviors Together the steps provide a clear-cut system designed to help friends and family reduce stress, improve their relationship with their borderline loved one, improve their problem-solving skills and minimize conflict, and feel more self-assured about setting limits. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description |
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Now, with The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder, Kreger takes readers to the next level by offering them five straightforward tools to organize their thinking, learn specific skills, and focus on what they need to do to get off the emotional rollercoaster: Take care of yourself; Uncover what keeps you feeling stuck; Communicate to be heard; Set limits with love; Reinforce the right behaviors.
Together the steps provide a clear-cut system designed to help friends and family reduce stress, improve their relationship with their borderline loved one, improve their problem-solving skills and minimize conflict, and feel more self-assured about setting limits. (