The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder: New Tools and Techniques to Stop Walking on Eggshells

by Randi Kreger

Overview

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 behaviors, unfair blaming and criticism, and suicidal tendencies common conduct among those who suffer from the disorder 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 organize 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 behaviors.

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592853632
Publisher:	Hazelden Publishing
Publication date:	10/23/2008
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	93,142
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

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.

What People are Saying About This

This indispensible book is compassionate to all involved and avoids blame, jargon, and oversimplification.

--Freda B. Friedman, Ph.D., Dialectical Behavior Specialist

Rachel Reiland

This book offers hope for those who think their situation has none.
--Rachel Reiland, author of Get Me Out of Here

Kimberlee Roth

Be prepared to make some positive changes in your relationships.

--Kimberlee Roth, co-author of Surviving a Borderline Parent

Perry D. Hoffman

Kreger should be commended for her untiring efforts to help people impacted by this disorder.

--Perry D. Hoffman, Ph.D., President-National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder

Debra Resnick

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.

--Debra Resnick, Psy.D., President, Psychological Services and Human Development Center

Richard A. Moskovitz

Kreger uncovers the marvelous symmetry of the borderline relationship, in which both participants experience similar self-doubts, irrational guilt and shame, wavering identity, helplessness, anger, and fear of abandonment. Those with BPD and their loved ones will, together, benefit from the tools she provides.

--Richard A. Moskovitz, M.D., author of Lost in the Mirror

Jerold J. Kreisman

With exquisite understanding of the disorder and empathy for both those who have it and their family members, Kreger offers valuable 'Power Tools,' to help readers endure the ravages of BPD.
--Jerold J. Kreisman, M.D., co-author of I Hate You, Don't Leave

Freda B. Friedman

This indispensible book is compassionate to all involved and avoids blame, jargon, and oversimplification.

--Freda B. Friedman, Ph.D., Dialectical Behavior Specialist

Barbara Oakley

Kreger masterfully breaks down BPD to help people more easily understand this complex subject.

--Barbara Oakley, Ph.D., author of Evil Genes

Blaire Aguirre

Randi Kreger has done it again! With her new book, she continues to make the dynamics of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) readily accessible to those of us who love, live with and treat people who suffer from this complex condition.

--Blaise Aguirre, MD, Medical Director, Adolescent Dialectical Behavior Therapy Residential Program, McLean Hospital