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Borderline Forums › Medicine & Treatments › Good books??
09/05/2011 03:46 PM
Good books?? (page 5)
mowgli
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Reading a book by those who have experienced BPD is also very helpful and is what ultimately pushed me to find the help I need:

I strongly recommend "Buddha and the Borderline" by Kiera Van Gelder

http://www.amazon.com/Buddha-Borderline-Recovery- Personality-Dialectical/dp/157224710X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315262640&sr=8-1

Next favorite is:

http://www.amazon.com/Borderline-Personality-Disorder- Survival-Guide/dp/1572245077/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315262688&sr=1-2

and

http://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Borderline-Personality- Disorder-Healing/dp/0195379586/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315262737&sr=1-1
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09/07/2011 05:49 AM  Top
sparklehorse
Mowgli, so you are liking thevsurvival guide. I'll check it out on Amazon again.

This book is dry, but good reference. It has a recovered BPD's comments interspered as illustrations of more techniqcal text : http://www.amazon.com/Borderline-Personality-Disorder-Facts- Krawitz/dp/0199202966

09/07/2011 08:07 AM  Top
mowgli
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Great, I will check it out, I read everything I can get my hands on.

I'm gonna read this someday soon, because my diagnosing psychologist co-authored it!

http://www.amazon.com/Major-Theories-Personality-Disorder- Second/dp/1593851081/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315407820&sr=8-1

I am also planning on going back to school for my masters in psychology and public policy/health care administration,

because I want to be a mental health advocate and lobbyist!

09/07/2011 08:19 AM  Top
sparklehorse
Well yay! For you too! Wow. That's great. You and peaches. Though peaches says therapist, I believe. You want to be involved in advocacy?

09/07/2011 11:58 AM  Top
mowgli
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Yes, public mental health policy, administration and advocacy!

Hope I don't get too frustrated though! Politics and the healthcare mess might be a tough one, but I am adamant about getting access to quality care for people with mental health problems. Right now it's despicable how a rich (or used to be) nation like the US can have such poor care.

The prisons are the new MH institutions! and the rest of us suffer trying to navigate the mire of MH treatment.

10/08/2011 04:06 PM  Top
mem6684
I have just started a new book called A Primer on Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for the Borderline Patient.

01/10/2012 08:33 PM  Top
mrsharris09
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Some really great ones I've read:

Get me out of here

Buddah and the Borderline

*Borderline Personality, PTSD, Anxiety and Panic Disorders, Depression, Slight agoraphobia

*PCOS, Endometriosis, Infertility, IBS, Fibro, Migraines, TMJ, Metabolic Syndrome (Syndrome X), Hypoglacemic turning Diabetic, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

01/11/2012 05:52 PM  Top
karel6
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I read Get Me Out Of Here a LOT.

It's my bible, practically.

Carol

DISCLAIMER:

I am just a peer.

I am only sharing my own experiences with the conditions addressed in the groups I participate in. And also my own opinion.

You can feel free to agree or disagree.

I only ask that you do so respectfully.

thanks,

Carol

Previous discussions I participated in:
Borderline or Growing Up Thing?
Im new...
being alone

01/11/2012 11:04 PM  Top
mrsharris09
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It's about as big as the Bible!

Post edited by: mrsharris09, at: 01/11/2012 11:04 PM

*Borderline Personality, PTSD, Anxiety and Panic Disorders, Depression, Slight agoraphobia

*PCOS, Endometriosis, Infertility, IBS, Fibro, Migraines, TMJ, Metabolic Syndrome (Syndrome X), Hypoglacemic turning Diabetic, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

04/12/2012 02:53 PM  Top
sweetmess87
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The Buddha and the Borderline by Kiera van Gelden. Awesome book I just finished reading! Now reading The Angry Heart.
sweetmess87

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