Introducing a breakthrough, integrative approach to managing your borderline personality disorder (BPD). If you’ve been diagnosed with BPD you may feel a number of emotions—including shock, shame, sadness, abandonment, emptiness, or even anger. Even worse, you may be tempted to research your diagnosis online, only to find doomsday scenarios and terrible prognoses everywhere you click. Take a deep breath. You can get through this—and this workbook will help guide you. Despite what you may have read or been told, BPD is not the worst thing that can happen to you. Like many mental health issues, it manifests on a spectrum, and while some people may encounter extreme symptoms and consequences on one end, others may be less affected on the other. What do you all have in common? You likely experience difficulty balancing your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. And you may even have trouble seeing yourself clearly—continuously switching from the hero to the villain of the story you’ve written about your life. So, how can you make sense of it all and start on the road to healing? Rather than utilizing a one-size-fits-all treatment, this groundbreaking and comprehensive workbook meets you where you are on your therapeutic journey, and provides an integrative approach to treating BPD drawing on evidence-based dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and interpersonal therapy. With this compassionate workbook, you’ll gain a greater understanding of your BPD, uncover your own emotional triggers, and discover your own personal motivators for positive change. Your BPD has determined how you see and live your life, but it doesn’t have to define you forever. With this workbook as your guide, you’ll be ready to face your diagnosis head-on, and take those important first steps toward lasting wellness.

Learn how to manage BPD with dialectical behavior therapy exercises Borderline personality disorder (BPD) can make it difficult to cope with your emotions and maintain healthy relationships—and it affects everyone differently. But with the right tools, you can learn to manage your symptoms and feel more resilient, balanced, and in control. This workbook offers simple exercises based in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a proven method for BPD treatment. With the expert guidance inside, you'll find practical ways to regulate your body and mind, improve your sense of self, and create positive change in your life. Understand DBT—Learn why DBT is the leading treatment for borderline personality disorder, helping you to stay present, manage intense emotions, and interact with others more effectively. Find what works for you—Discover evidence-based exercises and calming practices that show you how to use DBT in your daily life, along with compassionate advice that helps you feel supported and understood as you learn about BPD. Get additional guidance Complete this BPD workbook on its own or with the reflective writing prompts in the Borderline Personality Disorder Journal. Pick up this borderline personality disorder workbook and start building the skills you need to overcome your symptoms and thrive.

There’s no one-size-fits-all treatment for BPD—especially if you have a coexisting condition. BPD rarely occurs alone. For the first time, this groundbreaking guide offers a tailored approach to managing the symptoms of complex BPD. If you’ve been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD), or suspect that you might have it, you should know that not everyone experiences the condition in the same way. BPD actually manifests on a spectrum, and while some people may encounter extreme symptoms and consequences on one end, others may be less affected on the other. In addition, if you’re struggling with other conditions—such as bipolar disorder, depression, psychotic symptoms, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)—you may have complex BPD (C-BPD), and may benefit from expanding your knowledge and building your skills, so you can seek out a symptom management plan that is tailored to your unique needs. In Complex Borderline Personality Disorder, psychologist and BPD expert Daniel J. Fox offers a new understanding and awareness of the complexity of BPD, and helps you lay the groundwork needed to manage your symptoms more effectively. You’ll find checklists of specific symptoms to help you identify coexisting conditions related to BPD. And with this guide, you’ll feel more empowered to move forward in your life with all the knowledge, skills, and abilities you’ve learned. A clinician's guide is available as a downloadable resource for therapists wishing to use this book with their clients.

This workbook provides individuals who are undergoing therapy for borderline personality disorder with the tools to help them evaluate their emotional state, develop strategies to manage their moods and increase tolerance to stress, and learn techniques that will enable them to form and maintain healthy relationships. When you have borderline personality disorder (BPD), your emotions are always very intense . . . Relationships with others are sources of suffering in your life . . . You may also make impulsive decisions that you later regret. Are you ready for help in improving your daily life? The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook provides you with a step-by-step therapeutic program that you can follow in the comfort of your home. You will learn the most effective, evidence-based strategies that will help you • regulate your emotions; • reduce your impulsivity; • improve your relationships with others; • create a positive environment in which to flourish Interactive, informative elements appear on virtually every page of this engaging book. A matrix is used throughout to help you document your emotional state and behaviors associated with distressing feelings, situations, and relationships. Vignettes about a fictional character, Candace, appear in every chapter to illustrate both adaptive and maladaptive responses in various scenarios. The book also incorporates principles from acceptance and commitment therapy, and quotations and key points help reinforce the lessons. Along with therapy, this book can help you overcome your everyday problems and live a life that has meaning for you.

Do you ever feel like you're emotionally on a roller coaster? Not just because of your unstable emotions or relationships, but also the wavering sense of who you are. People with BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder) tend to be extremely sensitive. Small things can trigger intense reactions. And once upset, they have trouble calming down. It's easy to understand how this emotional volatility and inability to self-soothe leads to relationship turmoil and impulsive behavior. If you have BPD, everything feels unstable: your relationships, moods, thinking, behavior, even your identity. In the past, many mental health professionals found it difficult to treat borderline personality disorder, so they came to the conclusion that there was little to be done. But we now know that BPD is treatable. In fact, the long-term prognosis for BPD is better than those for depression and bipolar disorder. However, it requires a specialized approach. Here's what you'll find inside: history and causes of Borderline Personality Disorder the 9 side effects of BPD loving a person with BPD how can others help a companion or relative with BPD self-help tips ...and much more!

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Borderline personality disorder is a condition that impacts people’s lives and can be difficult to understand. It is typically diagnosed by a mental health professional, and its symptoms can be difficult to understand for those who have it and those who don’t. #2 BPD is one of ten personality disorders identified in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It is characterized by a pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood. #3 The BPD spectrum ranges from mild to extreme. If Betty is an example of someone who falls at the extreme end of the spectrum, where do you think you fall. In the exercise below, circle where on the spectrum you think you fall for each BPD criterion. #4 After you identify the symptoms that affect you the most, you can begin to piece together what influenced your answers and describe it below. It may make you feel like you’re alone, but remember that you’re not alone. BPD is a disorder that many people experience.

Gentle counsel and realistic advice for families contending with one of today's most misunderstood forms of mental illness. For family members of people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), home life is routinely unpredictable and frequently unbearable. Extreme mood swings, impulsive behaviors, unfair blaming and criticism, and suicidal tendencies--common conduct among those who suffer from the disorder--leave family members feeling confused, hurt, and helpless. In Stop Walking on Eggshells, Randi Kreger's pioneering first book which sold more than 340,000 copies, she and co-author Paul T. Mason outlined the fundamental differences in the way that people with BPD relate to the world. Now, with The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder, Kreger takes readers to the next level by offering them five straightforward tools to organize their thinking, learn specific skills, and focus on what they need to do to get off the emotional rollercoaster: (1) Take care of yourself; (2) Uncover what keeps you feeling stuck; (3) Communicate to be heard; (4) Set limits with love; and (5) Reinforce the right behaviors. Together the steps provide a clear-cut system designed to help friends and family reduce stress, improve their relationship with their borderline loved one, improve their problem-solving skills and minimize conflict, and feel more self-assured about setting limits.

This book brings together a series of experts and experienced clinicians to describe and discuss a series of BPD cases in a manner that emphasizes core descriptive and diagnostic features, generalizable principles and techniques, and key take-home messages for clinicians at all levels of experience. The book emphasizes consideration for the disorder from multiple perspectives to help identify effective responses to common clinical challenges and decision points. To enhance interest, narrative, and readability, each chapter uses a consistent format to present a common clinical challenge along with an effective therapeutic response and discussion of relevant theoretical and empirically validated principles. Each chapter title contains a patient’s (fictionalized) name and a subheading identifying the clinical dilemma or approach to be illustrated. The text includes key points and chapter summaries to help pull together the most important takeaways as quick reference. Borderline Personality Disorder is a vital resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses, general internists, social workers, and all medical professions working with patients suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder.

Have the symptoms and complications of your Borderline Personality Disorder caused you to lose hope, friends, and peace in life? Would you like to take back those things and all else that life has to offer you? Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques could be the answer you've been looking for to unlock your true potential and to ease the complications of your BPD, PTSD, or Somatic Psychological Disorders. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is an evidence-based psychotherapy. That means the therapy is based purely on things that you can use in your life to make changes to the way you feel. The purpose of DBT is for you to use it to take charge of your disorder so the symptoms and complications aren't keeping you from doing and having the things that you want in your life. Your BPD can often make you feel like there is no point in trying to fight against it, that there is no road out, and that your lot in life is simply to suffer the complications of your illness. This guide will show you that there is more available to you in life and that there are answers as to why you feel the way you do.; That's why this guide will show you: What regulating emotions means and how it's still possible with BPD How to manage anxiety Clinically proven techniques to get you through episodes What the mind is doing, which parts of it are responsible for the worst of your symptoms Coping skills for the worst flare-ups So much more! Can this really help my BPD? DBT is the leading technique being used by professionals to manage BPD and PTSD. With this method and with these techniques, you can finally take back control of your mind, your mental state, your emotions, and your life. Don't wait any longer! Click "Buy Now" to take back your life!