The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide
Author(s): CHAPMAN A
One of the more serious and hard-to-treat mental problems, borderline personality disorder (BPD) is also one of the most dangerous. Seventy-five percent of people with BPD will attempt suicide at some point, and ten percent ultimately take their own lives. Living with the symptoms of BPD is obviously a terrible burden for anyone, but receiving a BPD diagnosis and negotiating the necessary treatment can itself be a bewildering and painful process.This compassionate book offers people with BPD a detailed guide to the disorder and a point-by-point plan to the treatment and condition-management process. The book is organized as a series of answers to questions common to BPD sufferers: What is BPD? How long does it last? What other problems co-occur with BPD? Overviews of what we currently know about BPD make up the first section of the book. Later chapters cover several common treatment approaches to BPD: dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), mentalization-based therapy (MBT), and medical treatment using psychoactive drugs. In the last sections of the book, readers learn a range of day-to-day coping skills that can help moderate the symptoms of BPD.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : New Harbinger Publications
- : New Harbinger Publications
- : 0.345
- : 01 November 2007
- : 228mm X 152mm X 14mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : CHAPMAN A
- : CHAPMAN A
- : Illustrations
- : Illustrations
- : JM
- : JM
- : 256
- : 256
- : 616.85852
- : 616.85852
- : English
- : English
- : 0711
- : 0711
- : Paperback
- : Paperback