Coping with BPD: DBT and CBT Skills to Soothe the Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder

This book is so great. I've read a lot of books on BPD since being recently diagnosed with the disorder, but this book is probably my favorite. The books I've read all have value in them in their own way, but I really love how this book is set up. Each section tackles a specific type of emotion, provides questions to ask yourself and checklists to follow and other things to do to reduce the suffering of whatever type of emotion you're experiencing. I keep this book on my phone kindle app so I can refer to it whenever I have persistent negative emotions. I can definitely say this book has helped calmed me down multiple times. Totally worth it!

Where has this book been all my life??? Seriously, it’s short and compact so you can carry it with you. If you’re prone to BPD reactions or just inappropriate emotional reactions, this book will walk you through the situation and give you a check list so that you can make the decision you won’t regret (you know, the emotional decision). I think this book is extremely valuable to a large segment of the population, it’s unfortunate that many people who could benefit from it might pass it by because it is geared towards BPD. Trust me people, if you’ve made emotionally charged decisions that you’ve regretted later, this is a book you will find useful.

This hands on guide/ tool kit is extremely powerful for those challenged by BPD. #Hope #Resiliency #Self Empowering ###Thank you‼️

This book initially didn't intrigue me but I kept it around in case. This book has been a lifesaver for dealing with multiple situations involving social skills. This book is honestly a brutally honest book of some of the emotions someone with BPD could go through and, if you are willing to read how to deal with situations such as mood swings, self-harm, or harm to others this is a great book to gain knowledge on how to cope with BPD

I enjoy reading the book will recommend it to a friend someday

It was given to me as a gift and is okay for what it is but not he best book I've read on the topic!

I greatly recommend this book

Very good book with excellent cbt/dbt skills helpful.

Can't believe this hadn't been written sooner. So, so helpful - if like me - you don't have a therapist to coach you through day to day crisis. One of the problems I have when exceedingly disregulated is becoming stuck on 'what is the right skill to use or right thing to do'. I become very anxious imagining that I'll get it wrong and make things worse. This is one of the ways high anxiety effects me and even if I calm down, a lot of the DBT literature has hundreds of pages of options. To have two skilled therapists walk you through problem solving, in the way they have successfully coached their clients, is very reassuring. The book is quite concise, but it has covered my main issues - and I normally have the same ones recurring, rather than using the whole breadth of the book. The layout of each problem - a brief explanation, a vignette and then a walk-through of DBT skills followed by a handy checklist is clear and practical. Even reading through the problem helps me, my panic calms and my reasoning brain comes on-line, just making sense of the situation feels beneficial. I use this with The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation ... Tolerance (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) and use both as an adjunct to therapy. I'm hopeful that as I learn to skillfully respond to problems, it's going to change how my brain works and build my confidence to cope with my borderline symptoms. Although this is a simple book, it has had solutions to problems I've struggled with for years - staying in bed when overwhelmed emotionally and fear of never getting better, being stuck in the past or overwhelmed with paranoia. It makes it ok that these things come up, rather than thinking that they shouldn't happen at all - if a problem is workable, it makes a lot of difference. To move through the problem, to make a good day and a good life happen, regardless, is an amazing gift.

I bought this after my diagnosis with BPD and it's really helped me understand my condition and helps me cope with day to day problems. I'd recommend this to anyone whether you have BPD or have a loved one with it so you can better understand what they are going through.

“Forgive! Accept! Let go!” Zonder uitgebreide uitleg hoe je deze dingen moet doen. Als je al zo lang leeft met BPS, weet je inmiddels wel welke dingen je zou moeten doen, maar soms nemen je emoties zodanig de overhand dat je niet meer weet hoe je bepaalde oplossingen moet hanteren. Had veel meer verwacht van dit boek, jammer.

This book is big disappointment. Doesn't cover basic issues in depth. I flipped through some chapters and couldn't really finish it because of how immature the approach is.

After finishing this book, I knew I HAD to write a review. Having struggled with mental health for many years I have read many a self help book but this by far is the best one I have ever read. The tone of the book is so compassionate; you feel as if they are really hearing your pain and want to help. It was also written in a way that made it easy to read - broken down in to segments for certain situations so you can easily dip in and out of the book and go back to it if you need to. There are lots of suggestions on skills that may help you manage that particular situation and again, these are broken down so they don't feel huge in that moment. I whole-heartedly recommend this book to anybody who struggles with mental health. I have Complex PTSD and I think this book could be used for so many things, not just BPD. Give it a try :)