Sometimes I Act Crazy: Living with Borderline Personality Disorder
by Jerold J. Kreisman
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A source of hope, expert advice, and guidance for people with borderline personality disorder and those who love them Do you experience frightening, often violent mood swings that make you fear for your sanity? Are you often depressed? Do you engage in self-destructive behaviors such as drug or alcohol abuse, anorexia, compulsive eating, self-cutting, and hair pulling? Do you feel empty inside, or as if you don't know who you are? Do you dread being alone and fear abandonment? Do you have show more trouble finishing projects, keeping a job, or forming lasting relationships? If you or someone you love answered yes to the majority of these questions, there's a good chance that you or that person suffers from borderline personality disorder, a commonly misunderstood and misdiagnosed psychological problem afflicting tens of millions of people. Princess Diana was one of the most well-known BPD sufferers. As a source of hope and practical advice for BPD sufferers and those who love them, this new book by Dr. Jerold J. Kreisman and Hal Straus, bestselling authors of I Hate You, Don't Leave Me, offers proven techniques that help you: * Manage mood swings * Develop lasting relationships * Improve your self-esteem * Keep negative thoughts at bay * Control destructive impulses * Understand your treatment options * Find professional help show lessTags
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I don't think the authors had any plan of who this book was written for: borderlines? families/spouses? psychiatrists? The whole book just kind of jumps perspective. Also, the example stories are pretty chintsy at times.
One to reread! Great info and well written.
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Jerold J. Kreisman, MD, is a psychiatrist, leading expert on borderline personality disorder, and coauthor of I Hate You, Don't Leave Me and Sometimes I Act Crazy. He is in private practice in St. Louis, MO.
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- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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- 616.85 — Applied science & technology Medicine & health Diseases, Allergies, Skin Conditions Nervous Disorders: Autism, Anorexia, OCD Miscellaneous
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- RC569.5 .B67 .K743 — Medicine Internal medicine Internal medicine Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry Psychiatry Psychopathology Personality disorders. Behavior problems
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- English, German
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