Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder
How to Keep Out-of-Control Emotions from Destroying Your Relationship

Very good book, doesn't really address physical attacks or rage/anger responses all that much, so it didn't really fit my situation. And she is, of course, very hopeful that the person with BPD will accept help - and that you can still have safe communications with the person with BPD, which I can't......more

I would give this book more stars if I could. So much other literature on this complex personality disorder leaves the reader with a sense of hopelessness and despair. But not this book. The author writes with extreme compassion for both the persons suffering from BPD, and those who love and care fo......more

I'll start with the positives. I got this book because other reviewers said it humanizes people with BPD, which it does. It has a very hopeful outlook, which I appreciated. I did learn at least one useful thing. She suggests that when someone with BPD is in a state of self-loathing and saying excess......more

While repetitive at times, I felt this book did a good job explaining to someone without my background (mental health professional) how to respectfully care for a borderline person in their life and how to help break the cycles of destructive relationships that person may create. A concern I have is......more

I would've rated it 2.5/5 if possible. I'd say the book is helpful for someone who lacks awareness about their own or their loved one's emotions and where they come from, however, for someone who already understands that and just wants to know how to practically deal with the implications of these e......more