I Hate You, Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
by Jerold J. Kreisman, Hal Straus
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Author: Hal Straus, Jerold J. KreismanEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Published: 1991-02-01
ISBN: 0380713055
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Avon
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Book Review: The worst thing to happen to me.
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought it because I thought it would help me understand my diagnosis. It made me feel utterly hopeless. I lent it to the woman I was rapidly falling love with. We referred to it as the "Doom and Gloom" book, initially trying to be light about things. Eventually, of course, it caught up with us.
This is such a damaging book. This book lists nightmare story after nightmare story, suggests that we can't get better, and then guesses at who may or may not have been suffering with BPD - a famous woman who killed herself, an infamous man who killed millions.
If the author is a doctor he should have his license revoked - first do no harm, isn't that how it goes? To publish this drivel, then add unproven theories and present it the way it's presented is dangerous and irresponsible.
Sadly, yes, BPD sufferers can inflict pain on others. And if that happens, and that person has this book as their reference or guide, you can be guaranteed to be misunderstood, have assumptions made about you, and have other people deciding your motivations... and guaranteed that all the conclusions will be harsh and negative and one sided.
I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone other than to use it as kindling.
Summary of I Hate You, Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
"AM I LOSING MY MIND?"
People with Borderline Personality Disorderexperience such violent and frightening mood swingsthat they often fear for their sanity. They can beeuphoric one moment, despairing and depressed thenext. There are an estimated 10 million sufferersof BPD living in America today -- each displayingremarkably similar symptoms:
- a shaky sense of identity
- sudden violent outbursts
- oversensitivity 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. Kreismanand health writer Hal Straus offer much-neededprofessional advice, helping victims and their familiesto understand and cope with this troubling,shockingly widespread affliction.
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