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  • I am bipolar & was living with a man that had more issues was never diagnosed as he believed therapy a waste of time for him but great for me. I had moved out due to personal problems & was then laid off soon after, my child was out of hand & my bipolar reactions/ borderline personality came to the ... Continue

    I am bipolar & was living with a man that had more issues was never diagnosed as he believed therapy a waste of time for him but great for me. I had moved out due to personal problems & was then laid off soon after, my child was out of hand & my bipolar reactions/ borderline personality came to the surface terribly I knew the meaning of habit & self destruction, my therapist recommended this book that I immediately purchased & finished in less than a week. I did not change right away but I was able to see things & stop myself before it got too far, definitely a keeper & a reminder of never going back & getting help as needed.

    

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"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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