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book was very well thought out and easy for the average person to understand, I really enjoyed the story of Sara woven through the book at the end of each chapter, Also, towards the end the suggestions for how to deal with the different areas in someone's life that BPD effects seem really helpful, Not just for the person with BPD either, but also the people who love them, Understanding behaviors is hard enough, but sometimes dealing with them for everyone involved can be a real challenge, For those caught up in the pushpull cycle drawing the line diagram chart so the person with BPD can assessment how they are feeling about the closeness/distance in the relationship sounds great.
I think in the future if I use this system with my friend she will be abke to voice when she might be needing a break instead of just pushing me away so we can part amicably for a few weeks whole still keeping communication open.
All of the suggestions seem really helpful and I cannot wait to try them! Great book and I would highly recommend it! A lot of women in our sample of depressed mothers also received a BPD diagnosis, which made me really interested in this disorder.
Dr. Moskovitz has written a very compassionate and wellresearched book concerning the suffering experienced by borderlines, "Am I My Patient's Keeper" was a particularly good chapter, I read this book after being 'officially' diagnosed with BPD, I found it extremely easy to read with short chapters and good examples of real people, I didn't like the rather simplistic approach to medications and treatment options and the assumption that recovery without a professional is impossible, I think a bit more about how to help oneself in recovery would have been very nice,

I recommend it for Borderlines as well as significant others and loved ones of Borderlines,
Though I found the book a little too simplistic, particularly with the examples cited, and despite my reservations with Freudian explanations for human behavior, I think this is a very helpful, sensitive and compassionate guide for both patients of BPD as well as people who live with, and love, these patients.


Particularly in a society where a visit to a psychiatrist is meant to be kept under wraps and where many view even depression as a way to garner attention, it would be very helpful to understand the complicated animal that BPD is.


I was diagnosed with BPD a few months back, and the diagnosis, and the subsequent research that I have done on the ailment, has helped me better understand and come to terms with many recurring problems I have faced through my life, and the pain I have caused people close to me.
BPD can be a very confusing and traumatic experience for the patient and his/her family, and a book like this is very useful in helping explain some of the symptoms, without seeming like a justification for truant behavior.


Whether you are a patient, or know someone who suffers from BPD and there is a very good chance you do, or are just interested in learning more about a still littleunderstood condition, this book can be a very effective first step.
A very good book written by an extremely compassionate and giving psychiatrist on many aspects of being and treating a person with BPD,

I must say however in all my years dealing with this and seeing more professionals than I can count and taking more pills than is even reasonable, that I have never had anyone like this author.
He claims to worry a great deal about his patients, so much so that his sleep is sometimes disturbed, he takes calls atam, makes room in his schedule for someone in crisis.


Maybe they are out there, just that I have never come across one, As a reader who has been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder for nearlyyears now, BPD has played a huge part in my life.

If only this book was around when I was in my's, Emergency room doctors had no idea what to say or do and neither did psychiatrists or therapists, I was treated horribly because everyone ASSUMED things about me, For example, yes I have selfharmed literally hundreds of times but I NEVER intentionally tried to commit suicide,
My family and friends need to read this book to really understand who I am and what is BPD!!! If u work or live with this disorder, it will help u understand better how to deal with it.
Borderline is definitely one of the most challenging disorders in our society, Good book. So many ear tags on it I just have to laugh! It was ok, but I found borderline personality disorder demystified to actually be more informative.
This was a bit more dramatic than many BPD folks I know, Had some good info, but more of a story in many ways than anything, Taught me things I needed to know, Expanded my horizons. A heavy emphasis on the link between sexual abuse and Borderline which isn't currently a key concept, This book was originally written inand the second edition inwhich leads me to suspect that the theories are a little out of date.
Other than that it was a very easy read, but not a book I will bother with again, There are much better books out there eg "Overcoming Borderline personality Disorder" by Valerie Porr, "Out of the Fog" by Gary Walters, "The essential family guide to Borderline Personality Disorder: the new tools and techniques to stop walking on eggshells" by Randi Kreger, and "Stop walking on eggshells"by Paul T Mason.
the more I learn, the more I wish I knew! Wellknown books on BPD are aimed more at the loved ones, advocating for them and providing information and coping techniques.
This one advocates for the patient, speaking from inside the disorder with understanding and compassion, just ok, but needing more on habits of bpd like binging and other extremes of condition

it was just ok, but needing more on habits of bpd like binging and other extremes of condition.
thanks though. This book was a great help to me because it provided a reference point for what borderline personality disorder looks like in its fullblown state.
Very eye opening. Not all of it applied to me as I only haveof thecriteria, but it provided a good beginners look into BPD, Borderline personality disorder accounts for almostpercent of psychiatric hospitalizations in this country, Lost in the Mirror takes readers behind the erratic behavior of this puzzling disorder, examining its underlying causes and revealing the unimaginable pain and fear beneath its surface.
An excellent peek into the world of BPD! As a clinician, I found the language really helpful in understanding how to engage in healthy dialogue with my BPD clients, and understanding triggers further.
Super reader friendly, and a quick read too! Meh, nothing new here and the case study of the patient "Sara" was absurd and very unBPD IMHO
The woman disappearshours on her way to work or home and drivesmiles with absolutely no recollection of the events come on now.
this book was another far fetched extreme portrayal of the crazy btch label that so often gets slapped on people diagnosed with BPD another irritant was the proclamation by the author that if you have BPD you can pretty much count on multiple involuntary psych hospitalizations nope wrong The author seems to be a little too immersed in Freudian perspectives, but a decent overview with interesting vignettes.
A really good look at BPD, although towards the end it became obvious that the book was being written with the assumption that all BPD sufferers WOULD be in extensive therapy and therefore certain outcomes WOULD be attained.
Well. if only. Does gloss over the 'outcomes/cure' in a breazypage chapter that unsurprisingly doesn't address the issue at all, box of tissues at the ready for the whole book really, Good for family/friends to read I think although I found quite a lot of psychoanalytic jargon used and as that is my background I'm not sure those without that background would have the same understanding.
If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder you may find this useful, I should note that I am highly skeptical of a diagnosis of BPD who is not at least in their mid to late's This is a good overview of Borderline Personality Disorder as a whole, from criteria for diagnosis to support for friends and family.
I'd certainly reccommend it to anyone trying to understand the disorder, At the same time, it's written specifically to the Borderline patient and, while it doesn't exclude others from reading it, I think it reads better with a little first hand experience.
Also, one unfortunate aspect of Narcissistic disorders is that the subject is the least likely to recognize that anything is wrong much less read a book about it, but I wouldn't really fault the book for noble intentions.


As the offspring of an NPD/BPD, I found the first several chapters Diagnosis criteria, case studies, etc, to be a little difficult to get through, but difficult in that it hit the nail on the head, so to speak, It's written in pretty accessible language, and I found much of the advice on healing and treatments could be employed by family and friends though there is a chapter devoted to friends and family as well.
I have to say, this book is one of the best 'selfhelp' books out there,
Rick Moskovitz is a Harvard educated psychiatrist who taught psychotherapy and spent nearly four decades listening to his patients tell their stories, After leaving practice, he in turn became a storyteller, writing science fiction that explores the psychological consequences of living in a world of expanding possibilities.
His Brink of Life Trilogy begins with the quest for immortality in the midst century and concludes with a search for the origin of human life.
In Shared Madness, he returned to his roots as a psychiatrist to write a first person tale of a psychiatrist who, while treating a psychotic patient, descends into madness and finds himself at the nexus of a deadly mystery.
Carousel Music explores his fascination with the subject Rick Moskovitz is a Harvard educated psychiatrist who taught psychotherapy and spent nearly four decades listening to his patients tell their stories.
After leaving practice, he in turn became a storyteller, writing science fiction that explores the psychological consequences of living in a world of expanding possibilities.
His Brink of Life Trilogy begins with the quest for immortality in the midst century and concludes with a search for the origin of human life.
In Shared Madness, he returned to his roots as a psychiatrist to write a first person tale of a psychiatrist who, while treating a psychotic patient, descends into madness and finds himself at the nexus of a deadly mystery.
Carousel Music explores his fascination with the subjective and malleable nature of memory and how

our memories create the narrative of our identities, sitelink.