Books? advise please

Hi there everyone,

Am researching books on bpd and I was just wondering what everyone recommends please..

Have looked at a few on Amazon where you can read some of the contents and have read reviews however, I just thought I'd ask on here too.

Many thanks in advance
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This is the DBT bible. This is the book they use in the MH places in the UK to teach DBT from, so have a look at this. It's worth the price.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Training-Treati ... 682&sr=1-6

Stop Walking on Eggshells is excellent. It's really written for nons who live with a BPD person, but I found it incredibly useful anyway.

The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide is quite good too. Not as good as Eggshells, in my opinion.

Sometimes I Act Crazy is written in a slightly weird way but it still had its useful bits.
I Hate You- Don't Leave Me is by the same people- think it predates it. Probably worth a read but it may be a little out of date, I can't recall.

Get Me Out Of Here is really interesting- almost like a novel. It's one woman's account of her life with BPD (and how, through therapy, she begins to deal with it). It's quite hopeful and deals with recovery.

Girl In Need of a Tourniquet is pretty awful. Don't waste your money.

Beatrix Kiddo wrote:Stop Walking on Eggshells is excellent. It's really written for nons who live with a BPD person, but I found it incredibly useful anyway.

The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide is quite good too. Not as good as Eggshells, in my opinion.

Sometimes I Act Crazy is written in a slightly weird way but it still had its useful bits.
I Hate You- Don't Leave Me is by the same people- think it predates it. Probably worth a read but it may be a little out of date, I can't recall.

Get Me Out Of Here is really interesting- almost like a novel. It's one woman's account of her life with BPD (and how, through therapy, she begins to deal with it). It's quite hopeful and deals with recovery.

Girl In Need of a Tourniquet is pretty awful. Don't waste your money.

I have the books in bold, but PLEASE I wouldn't recommend I Hate You, Don't Leave Me. It's like BPD family all over again.
The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide is quite good, but there isn't much to it. It feels empty.

Hi There,
Loud in The House of Myself is a great book!! Its about a girls struggle with ED and BPD and how she recovered!

Lia_Interrupted wrote:

Beatrix Kiddo wrote:Stop Walking on Eggshells is excellent. It's really written for nons who live with a BPD person, but I found it incredibly useful anyway.

The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide is quite good too. Not as good as Eggshells, in my opinion.

Sometimes I Act Crazy is written in a slightly weird way but it still had its useful bits.
I Hate You- Don't Leave Me is by the same people- think it predates it. Probably worth a read but it may be a little out of date, I can't recall.

Get Me Out Of Here is really interesting- almost like a novel. It's one woman's account of her life with BPD (and how, through therapy, she begins to deal with it). It's quite hopeful and deals with recovery.

Girl In Need of a Tourniquet is pretty awful. Don't waste your money.

I have the books in bold, but PLEASE I wouldn't recommend I Hate You, Don't Leave Me. It's like BPD family all over again.
The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide is quite good, but there isn't much to it. It feels empty.

Ugh, that book is awful. I was given that when I was first diagnosed.

Also, Walking on Eggshells has advice to 'parents of pwBPD' which is perpeutating child abuse. In the book, ther are accounts of childhoods of pwBPD, yet advice to parents on how to set boundaries?
The woman who wrote that book as no credentials. Just someone who had a bad run in with a pwBPD and decided to make a book compiled from people's stories.

The book does not diffrenciate between 'BPD child, BPD spous and BPD parent'. Three very different relaitonship dynanmics.

Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified by Robert O. Friedel is my favorite. It's the most informative and helpful book on BPD I've ever read. And it's not written for nons either, it's intended for readers who have the illness.

Thank you very much for your replies.

I have heard to stay clear of 'walking on eggshells'.....? Am I right that the author has something to do with the website bpdfamily ? Once again I have heard not very good stuff about the website.

Anyway, I digress... Someone mentioned a book called 'Buddah and the bordeline' by Kiera Van Gelder. Anyone know this one?

Also 'The bordeline personality disorder survival guide' by Alex Chapman and Kim Gratz ?

Thank you all once again. I want to get my hands on a really decent, balanced book.

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There is nothing wrong with Stop Walking On Eggshells. It's a good book, but it has stories from people who were victimized by pwBPDs, that's the only thing you may not like about it. I feel it's very sympathetic towards people with the illness, but it contains different sections from different perspectives, some of pwBPDs, and some of nons.

ajr8 wrote:There is nothing wrong with Stop Walking On Eggshells. It's a good book, but it has stories from people who were victimized by pwBPDs, that's the only thing you may not like about it. I feel it's very sympathetic towards people with the illness, but it contains different sections from different perspectives, some of pwBPDs, and some of nons.

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Don't listen to this guy Demitris.

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