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<p> <B>Surviving a Borderline Parent</B> is the first step-by-step guide for adult children of parents with borderline personality disorder.</P><BR><P>Between 6 and 10 million people in the US suffer from borderline personality disorder. This book teaches adult children how to overcome the devastating effects of growing up with a parent who suffers from BPD.</P><BR><P>Although relatively common, borderline personality disorder (BPD) is often overlooked or misdiagnosed by therapists and clinicians and denied by those who suffer from it.</P><BR><P>Symptoms of this problem include unpredictability, violence and uncontrollable anger, deep depression and self-abuse. Parents with BPD are often unable to provide for the basic physical and emotional needs of their children. In an ironic and painful role reversal, BPD parents can actually raise children to be their caretakers. They may burden even very young children with adult responsibilities.</P><BR><P>If you were raised by a BPD parent, your childhood was a volatile and painful time. This book, the first written specifically for children of borderline parents, offers step-by-step guidance to understanding and overcoming the lasting effects of being raised by a person suffering from this disorder. Discover specific coping strategies for dealing with issues common to children of borderline parents: low self-esteem, lack of trust, guilt, and hypersensitivity. Make the major decision whether to confront your parent about his or her condition.</p>
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Journalist Kimberlee Roth has written extensively on BPD. Freda B. Friedman, PhD, LCSW, works with families of BPD patients at the Phoenix Institute in Chicago. Randi Kreger is the author of Stop Walking on Eggshells.
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This isn't another book focused on family dysfunction or about terrible mothers (though BPD is diagnosed in women three times as often as in men, for a variety of reasons we'll cover shortly). Read the first page
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This isn't another book focused on family dysfunction or about terrible mothers (though BPD is diagnosed in women three times as often as in men, for a variety of reasons we'll cover shortly). Read the first page
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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Excellent Resource!,
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This review is from: Surviving a Borderline Parent: How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds and Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem (Paperback)
My mother has BPD and the past six years have been the worst. She's alcoholic and IV drug abuser and her behavior has ripped my family to pieces. I have a brother and sister who are much younger than me and are still right in the middle of this family crisis. This book along with "Understanding the Borderline Mother" have helped me to gain some sort of control over my life. I've learned to look at her behavior as an illness and I now know that it's not my fault and that I have a right to live a happy life even if that means not having a relationship with my mother at all. I now know that a family is built around love, faith, kindness and genorosity and not manipulation, lies, drugs , sex and violence. I'm trying to pass all of this information on to my younger siblings in hope that they realize that they're not the problem either. This book is an absolute must read for anyone that has a parent with BPD.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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This review is from: Surviving a Borderline Parent: How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds and Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem (Paperback)
Wonderful & Practical!!!!!Kimberlee and Freda's book draws on the insights of previous books concerning people in relationship with those who have borderline personality disorder. Having read this wonderful and very practical book, I can see why Randi Kreger wrote the forward. As I read this book, I saw a very good but non-technical theme throughout the book. The term is never used, but the issue of co-dependency is addressed. Also, the way out is clearly outlined. While written for adult children of parents with bpd, I see two more audiences to benefit from this book. First, the children of those with this personality disorder who still live at home can benefit from this book. If used wisely by the non-bpd parent and/or the therapist of the family's children, it could help them greatly. Second, those whose mother-in-law or father-in-law have this disorder will find practical help here in dealing with very challenging 'toxic in-laws.' Thank you very much for writing this book. Sincerely, John
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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good book!!!,
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This review is from: Surviving a Borderline Parent: How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds and Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem (Paperback)
Well this is a wonderful book for explaining why people act the way they do. I did not know why I was always blamed injured powerfully and pathologized. i.e I was the sick one, the burdensome one, and one with personality issues, like BPD. But when I read this book while it was challenging reading, it freed me. I saw my own pathology and extreme pain was because I was at the mercy of my mother who had BPD and her mother. So the cycle really gets to stop. You can say no, you don't get to hurt me and blame me and hurt me and make it about me. Read this book and it will open your eyes. Believe me.
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