The Essential Family Guide To Borderline

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For family members of people with borderline personality disorder (BPD), home life is routinely unpredictable and many times unbearable. Extreme mood swings, impulsive behaviors, and suicidal tendencies—common conduct amongst those who suffer from the disorder—leave family members sentiment confused, hurt, and helpless.

In her pioneering primary book Stop Walking on Eggshells, co-authored with Paul T. Mason, Randi Kreger outlined the rudimentary divergences in the way that people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) relate to the world. Now, with The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder, she takes readers to the next level, giving them straightforward tools to get off the aroused roller coaster and repair relationships with loved ones with BPD. Kreger answers the questions family members most want to ask about: the sensations or changes and treatment of BPD, including why BPD is so misdiagnosed; how sensations or changes may differ by age and gender; and how addiction and other disorders complicate BPD. She then outlines how families may set boundaries and commune differently in order to support themselves and their loved ones cope with this bewildering form of mental illness.

ReviewThis book offers hope for those who think their circumstance has none.
–Rachel Reiland, author of Get Me Out of Here (Rachel Reiland )

About the AuthorRandi Kreger is the co-author of Stop Walking on Eggshells and The Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook. She operates www.bpdcentral.com, one of the top web-based resources for those living with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and their families. Founder of the Personality Disorder Awareness Network, Kreger is often times invited to lecture on BPD and affiliated issues to clinicians and laypeople.

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86 of 89 people found the following review helpful.
A Must Read for family, friends, clinicians and judges
By T. CRAWFORD
Very few books can actually change your life. Randi Kreger has written two. “Stop Walking on Eggshells” (SWOE) changed my life and the lives of many others. “The Essential Family Guide” now offers the tools to family members and professionals to help deal with BPD with great efficiency and effectiveness.

178 of 204 people found the following review helpful.
Almost but not quite
By John Lucas
My wife, I suspect, has BPD, and I read Randi’s book, “Stop Walking on Eggshells”, about a year and a half ago. I then participated in Randi’s on-line support groups, and generally attempted to follow some of the advice in that book and on that site, without much success, frankly. This new book is helping me much more in understanding and empathizing with my wife, but I still think it doesn’t quite get what is the most effective means for interacting with a borderline.