When Someone You Love Has Borderline Personality Disorder : How to Repair the Relationship

"Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is among the most difficult to treat and debilitating of psychological problems. Even though BPD is far rarer than major anxiety and mood disorders, it accounts for more than 10 percent of all psychiatric outpatient visits and more than 25 percent of all psychiatric cases that require hospitalisation. And individuals with BPD have a greater than 70 percent chance of attempting or committing suicide. With statistics like these, it's easy to imagine how difficult it is to be a family member, friend, or partner of someone with BPD. Maintaining a safe and positive relationship despite BPD requires specialised information and skills, the information that readers will find in this much-needed book. Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder offers readers new ways of communicating, developing trust and repairing damaged relationships with a person with BPD. These methods are adapted from dialectic behaviour therapy (DBT), a revolutionary new psychotherapy that research suggests is the most effective means of treating this disorder. The techniques presented in the book all start from a position of compassion, with the acceptance and validation of individuals with BPD. These attitudes work to foster an atmosphere for the BPD sufferer that will motivate him or her to seek treatment, to work at the treatment they've already undertaken, and to truly believe that they can get better."