| Benefits
The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder
will:
- Provide you with a comprehensive, easy-to-use communication
strategy that will give you a newfound confidence when
the eggshells start cracking
- Reveal the three keys to successfully setting limits
with borderline individuals and avoid the mistakes most
people make again and again
- Help you get unstuck when your relationship is too
good to leave but too bad to stay
- Show you how to take charge of the leading side effects
of having a borderline loved one: stress, depression,
worry, guilt, low self-esteem, and anger
- Show you how to find the real “you” again
even if you think you’ve lost yourself for good
- Explode the myths that BPD is “untreatable”
and that those who have it are “manipulative”
- Show you how to avoid useless arguments or bring them
to a close
- Tackle the controversial issue of BPD in children and
show you how to get a proper diagnosis and treatment plan
- Convince you that the best way to help your family member
is to start meeting your own needs
- Show you that you have the power to improve your situation
even if your family member can’t or won’t
change
- Explain why it’s so hard for people with BPD
to see your side of things
- Give you a step-by-step approach to finding treatment
providers with a list of 23 referral sources and 20 questions
you should ask to find the right one
- Introduces techniques for “validating”
your family member without suggesting that you agree with
his or her distorted reasoning
- Explain why your borderline partner doesn’t seem
to recognize or tend to your emotional needs
- Describe ways to help your family member without rescuing
them.
- Reveal ways you may be unwittingly sabotaging your own
boundaries
- Explain that an inherited genetic trait could be leading
your family member to strike out at others, self-harm,
or consider suicide
- Help you stop responding to your family member in ways
that can make things worse
- Reveal one of the most important—and most overlooked—considerations
in selecting the right therapist
- Help you figure out if couples therapy is the best
course of treatment
- Give you practical tips for overcoming FOG (fear, obligation,
and guilt) so you can see all the choices available to
you
- Explain how to create a climate of cooperation that
is fundamental to finding win-win solutions
- Give you lists of disarming phrases that defuse conflict
- Show you how to rebuild connections and repair relationships
- Show you how to harness the power your body language
and tone of voice, which communicates 93% of your attitudes
and beliefs
- Take much of the fear, indecision, and confusion away
from setting limit
- Explain how differences in boundary styles between
you and your borderline family member might be causing
you to feel inundated and overwhelmed
- Help you anticipate and prepare for infringements on
your limits
- Provide you with a resource list of web sites, books,
and other materials to help you learn to use the five
Power Tools.
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