I Hate You - Don't Leave Me : Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder...HC Price: $10.75
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The book in this listing is not paperback, it is Hardcover, 1st printing 1989 and has 204 pages.
"AM I LOSING MY MIND?"
People with Borderline Personality Disorder experience such violent and frightening mood swings that they often fear for their sanity. They can be euphoric one moment, despairing and depressed the next. There are an estimated 10 million sufferers of BPD living in America today -- each displaying remarkably similar symptoms:
a shaky sense of identity sudden violent outbursts over sensitivity to real or imagined rejection brief, turbulent love affairs frequent periods of intense depression eating disorders, drug abuse, and other self-destructive tendencies an irrational fear of abandonment and an inability to be alone
For years BPD was difficult to describe, diagnose, andtreat. But now, for the first time, Dr. Jerold J. Kreisman and health writer Hal Straus offer much-needed professional advice, helping victims and their families to understand and cope with this troubling,shockingly widespread affliction. -- HARPERCOLL
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Review created:06/15/15
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Great Quality, honest seller, budget, quick sender!! I recommend seller! :) by:
I bought this to educate myself with someone I know with Borderline
Personality Disorder. I like the way there is no writing in the book
and how flexible the book is while reading it without falling apart.
There is nothing I do not like about this book either. Everything looks
good as new to me. Definitely recommend. The price was right and budget
friendly. Thanks
Review created:05/26/15
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A must have for those who may have bpd or a family member. by:
This is one of the premier books on understanding borderline
personality disorder. The book helps you understand all the conditions a
person may have with this disorder. A must for those who are suffering
with this or are a family member wanting to know how to respond.
Review created:10/05/06
customer product rating13 of 13 found this review helpful.
I
was diagnosed as having BPD (borderline personality disorder). Though I
recieved info regarding BPD from my doctor, I still could not
understand the diagnosis or how it pertained to me. I researched and
found this book and one called "Lost In The Mirror". I bought them both
and I am extremely glad I did.
I highly recommend getting both books!!!
I was a self-mutilator. I cut myself with razors and I burnt my flesh
with cigarettes. I was not a teen-ager out to get attention which is
what most think of when they think of self-mutilators. I didn't want
anyone to know what I was doing ... I would have been extremely
embarrassed. After all, I was married and had 3 children. I hid my
wounds with a lot of clothes.
You can read my review here regarding "Lost In The Mirror" to find out
more on how it helped me.
"I Hate You, Don't Leave Me" is one that helped me figure out why I
wanted people in my life ... but then I wanted also to push them away
and get them to leave me alone. I saw everything and everyone as either
black or white ... no grey in between. One moment I had my husband on a
pedestal. He was a perfect God! He was handsome, loving ... just
perfect and I adored him. A moment later ... WOAH! He was an evil jerk
who could do nothing right in my eyes! I would switch from being an
adoring, loving wife one moment to being a hateful witch the next just
by him doing very little things that I found annoying ... such as not
filling an ice tray.
Often times I would scream at him to leave ... just get out. I hated
him. Then I would turn right around and beg him to stay ... I loved him.
I didn't even realize the extent of my behavior until I read this book.
In order to overcome how I acted and reacted, I had to first be able to
recognize my own patterns and then learn how to start responding
differently to the outside stimuli.
Thanks to this book and the other, I no longer harm myself or mistreat
those I love. I have learned to see myself and others as we really are
and not in such extreme and opposite measures. Oh I ca… Read full review
This is an excellent book for anyone living and dealing with
someone who has problems with borderline personality, bipolar disorder,
problems with OCD, fear of abandonment, etc. I am thoroughly enjoying
reading this book. Many insightful hints and suggestions on how to make
life easier to live when involved with the borderline personality.
