Stop walking on eggshells
by Mason, Paul T. M.S. · first published 1998
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"This comprehensive and supportive self-help guide helps family and friends of individuals with BPD understand this self-destructive disorder and learn what they can do to cope with BPD behavior and take care of themselves."--Cover.
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…is diagnosed. He is very abusive, emotional vampire but never sees his mistakes, and always blames other people for everything. Really hard to deal with. There are some books that can help, for example Stop Walking on Eggshells. I found this website useful: http://outofthefog.website/personality-disorders-1/2015/12/6...
on “Borderline Personality Disorder: Treatment Resistance Reconsidered” ↗…raised by a BPD mother (who actually did an incredible job coping with it as an adult, but she wasn't perfect), and I have dated multiple women with BPD (an all-too-common scenario apparently). I found Stop Walking on Eggshells and similar sources (e.g. the BPD articles on http://gettinbetter.com/articles.html) extremely helpful when it came to recovering from my relationships. The first one had all sorts of red flags, but…
on “Borderline Personality Disorder: Treatment Resistance Reconsidered” ↗If people get one thing and only one from this thread, it should be this: the vast majority of popular work on BPD (e.g., Stop Walking on Eggshells, mentioned below, and "I hate you, don't leave me", etc.) is based on research that is decades out of date and substantially obsolete. If you want to learn about BPD, start with the research on Dialectical…
on “Borderline Personality Disorder: Treatment Resistance Reconsidered” ↗