Sometimes I Act Crazy, Hal Straus
Sometimes I Act Crazy, Hal Straus
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Sometimes I Act Crazy
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder

Author: Hal Straus, Jerold J. Kreisman, MD

Narrator: A.W. Miller

Unabridged: 8 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/20/2025


Synopsis

Do you experience frightening, often violent mood swings that make you fear for your sanity? Are you often depressed? Do you engage in self-destructive behaviors such as drug or alcohol abuse, anorexia, compulsive eating, self-cutting, and hair pulling? Do you feel empty inside, or as if you don't know who you are? Do you dread being alone and fear abandonment? Do you have trouble finishing projects, keeping a job, or forming lasting relationships?

If you or someone you love answered yes to the majority of these questions, there's a good chance that you or that person suffers from borderline personality disorder, a commonly misunderstood and misdiagnosed psychological problem afflicting tens of millions of people. Princess Diana was one of the most well-known BPD sufferers.

As a source of hope and practical advice for BPD sufferers and those who love them, this new book by Dr. Jerold J. Kreisman and Hal Straus, bestselling authors of I Hate You, Don't Leave Me, offers proven techniques that help you: manage mood swings, develop lasting relationships, improve your self-esteem, keep negative thoughts at bay, control destructive impulses, understand your treatment options, and find professional help.

About Hal Straus

Hal Straus has been a professional medical/health writer and editor for more than twenty-five years.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Phoenix on August 28, 2012

I wish someone would write one of these books FOR the person with BPD and not the psychologists and doctors. All of the technical and medical stuff goes right over my head. Write a book for us please.......more

Goodreads review by Jane on March 01, 2010

I wouldn't recommend this book to people with Borderline PDO or families/friends of. It's a pretty decent overview of the disorder for mental health professionals, but I think a little bit too detailed for the lay public. He talks some abou theorists (seriously, do you the average person wants to he......more

Goodreads review by Martha on August 05, 2008

I chose "read" only because "kind of skimmed through" was not an option. My review is lengthy, but if you read it, you can save your time and skip the book, because it is full similar (but in my opinion less realistic) case studies, and there is a lot of uncertainty in causes of borderline and progno......more

Goodreads review by Syd on March 27, 2016

I read this despite the off-putting title and mediocre reviews, and as expected it's sort of a mixed bag but it was helpful. it's a quick read, and I appreciate that each characteristic gets a chapter and then each chapter is similarly subdivided, but I agree that the real life examples veer into the......more

Goodreads review by Nishant on November 20, 2017

This is a good book if you have an academic interest in BPD or psychology in general. If someone you know has BPD and you want to get a better idea of this ailment in order to be more supportive to the borderliners then you can read this book but I would recommend to google about this and learn from......more