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The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder offers compassionate and practical advice for those living with loved ones who have BPD. Author Randi Kreger builds on her earlier work to provide five clear tools that help family members care for themselves, communicate effectively, and set healthy boundaries while managing the unpredictable and often painful behaviours associated with the disorder.
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This book is intended for family members and close friends of people with Borderline Personality Disorder seeking to better understand and support their loved ones while managing their own wellbeing.

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Randi Kreger's communication techniques, grounded in the latest research, provide family members with the essential ability to regain a genuine, meaningful relationship with their loved one with borderline personality disorder (BPD).

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Gentle counsel and realistic advice for families contending with one of today's most misunderstood forms of mental illness.

For family members of people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), home life is routinely unpredictable and frequently unbearable. Extreme mood swings, impulsive behaviours, unfair blaming and criticism, and suicidal tendenciesβ€”common conduct among those who suffer from the disorderβ€”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 co-author 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 readers to the next level by offering them five straightforward tools to organise 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 behaviours

Together, the steps provide a clear-cut system designed to help friends and family reduce stress, improve their relationship with their borderline loved one, enhance their problem-solving skills and minimise conflict, and feel more self-assured about setting limits.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781592853632

Publisher: Hazelden Information & Educational Services

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 October 2008

Country: United States

Imprint: Hazelden Information & Educational Services

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 230.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 304

About the Author

Randi Kreger is coauthor of the groundbreaking bestseller Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder (over 350,000 copies sold), and author of the Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook: Practical Strategies for Living With Someone Who Has Borderline Personality Disorder. These two books, which have been translated into seven different languages, have brought the concerns of family members with a borderline loved one to the international forefront. Kreger's website, BPDCentral.com, is one of the largest and longest-established sites about Borderline Personality Disorder on the web. Kreger is cofounder of the Personality Disorder Awareness Network and maintains Welcome to Oz, an online support group for family members of those with BPD. She gives presentations internationally to both laypeople and clinicians.

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