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The revised and expanded third edition of the bestselling guide to understanding borderline personality disorder—with advice for communicating with and helping the borderline individuals in your life. After more than three decades as the essential guide to borderline personality disorder (BPD)...

Borderline Personality Disorder. "What the hell was that?" raged Rachel Reiland when she read the diagnosis written in her medical chart. As the 29-year old accountant, wife, and mother of young children would soon discover, it was the diagnosis that finally explained her explosive anger, manipulative behaviors, and self-destructive episodes- including bouts of anorexia, substance abuse, and sexual promiscuity.

Based on seven years of ground-breaking research and hundreds of interviews, I Thought It Was Just Me shines a long-overdue light on an important truth: Our imperfections are what connect us to each other and to our humanity. Our vulnerabilities are not weaknesses; they are powerful reminders to keep our hearts and minds open to the reality that we're all in this together.

Anxiety Is Not a Passing Mosquito that Stings Me explains that anxiety is not something outside the person that could attack them at any moment (as if it were a mosquito). The book also explains that anxiety is not inevitable; rather it is produced by certain behaviours in the individual that make their nervous system feel at risk and this is when the symptoms we call anxiety appear. The text describes these behaviours and how to change them.

Everyone thrives on love, comfort, and the safety of family, friends, and community. But if you are denied these basic comforts early in life through a lack of physical affection or emotional bonding, you may develop intense fears of abandonment that can last well into adulthood - fears so powerful that they can actually cause you to push people away. If you suffer from fears of abandonment, you may have underlying feelings of anger, shame, fear, anxiety, depression, and grief.

Learn how to heal your emotional wounds, get unstuck, and get into healthy, loving, intimate relationships with the help of this eye-opening book. At the core of most toxic relationships is a painful trauma wound desperate to be healed. As a licensed professional counselor and trauma researcher...

The statistics on suicide are staggering. The World Health Organization estimates that nearly 800,000 people die by suicide every year, which is one person every forty seconds, and for each completed suicide there may be twenty or more attempts. In How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me, Susan Blauner is the perfect emissary for a message of hope and a program of action for these millions of people.

This deeply personal and supportive series offers listeners an honest and relatable insight into how some the UK's best-known celebrities have coped with mental health difficulties, ranging from OCD to insomnia, addiction to grief, and depression to anxiety.

Don’t Call Me Sober, Call Me May isn’t another self-help book preaching the same outdated dogma. It’s a raw wake-up call for those ready to break free from labels and take control of their lives. True freedom isn’t in counting days or meetings—it’s in doing the hard work to overcome and reclaim yourself. This book dismantles the flawed thinking behind traditional recovery models, offering a mindful, no-BS alternative rooted in personal accountability, self-awareness, and lasting change.

Gustavo Tubarão, fenômeno do Instagram com mais de 8 milhões de seguidores, tornou-se reconhecido pelo seu humor e sua simplicidade. Adotou o apelido e o símbolo de Tubarão por morrer de medo do bicho, e aí encontrou sua força. Que nem o Batman com o morcego. Mineiro de Cana Verde, ele se orgulha de suas origens e de sua cultura por meio de seus vídeos, que alavancaram sua carreira. O jovem de 23 anos também é muito sincero ao falar dos seus problemas – uma cacetada deles. Depressão, síndrome do pânico, transtorno borderline...

The award-winning book on engaging in more meaningful conversations with your child on the autism spectrum. If your child finds talking to people a struggle, this is the book to get the conversation started. In this hands-on guide, Heather Jones offers practical advice, born of experience with her own son, which will help you teach your child the principles of communication.

ADHD doesn't just affect individuals. It affects entire families. Impulsiveness, emotional turbulence, poor organizational skills, unpredictable schedules, and inconsistent discipline are just some of the factors that can contribute to misunderstanding and difficult interpersonal relationships in a neurodiverse family. But that doesn't mean families dealing with ADHD are doomed to constant miscommunication and stress. It just means you may need a different strategy.

لقد تحدثت الدكتورة تارا بورتر خلال مسيرتها المهنية الحافلة في العلاج النفسي مع مئات الفتيات اللاتي يعانين مشكلات في الصحة النفسية. وفي هذا الكتاب تقدم تارا نصائحها المستمدة من خبرتها الطويلة حول القضايا الأكثر أهمية عند الفتيات الصغيرات، بدءًا من اجتياز الاختبارات وإقامة الصداقات وأمور الدراسة والتعليم، ومرورًا بالقلق والقضايا الأسرية والزواج، ووصولًا إلى ثقافة النظام الغذائي ووسائل التواصل الاجتماعي، حيث تجمع تارا كل ما تعلمته لتقدم للفتيات الإرشادات المباشرة التي يحتجنها من أجل التحلي برباطة الجأش والثقة، ولكي يصبحن أطيب نفسًا وأهنأ عيشًا.

"Few books combine theological precision with practical wisdom as skillfully as Lies My Therapist Told Me." — Jonny Ardavanis "Dr. Gifford is an incredible resource." — Allie Beth Stuckey From beloved Christian counselor, professor, and podcaster Greg Gifford comes a bold and balanced...

My name's Joe, and I have one job, every day: don't kill myself. I live with a complex mental illness called Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). 15% of people with BPD die by suicide, and 40% try. I'm already in the 40%. My job is to keep out of the 15%. In this book I want to try and explain what life is like when you have a brain that is essentially trying to murder you every day. It's a collection of the funny, sad and shocking stuff that has happened to me along the way.

When Buddhist chaplain Sharon Lukert was diagnosed with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), she turned to spiritual practice and community to help her adjust to a new and ever-shifting reality. In Until My Memory Fails Me, she shares her hard-won wisdom as a guide for anyone standing at the gateway of cognitive decline. Through poignant storytelling and practical wisdom, Lukert offers specific ways to build resilience against the emotional swings and existential fear inherent in cognitive decline.

Imagine waking up one day to discover that you have forgotten everything about your life. Your only link with the past, your only hope for the future, is your identical twin. Now imagine, years later, discovering that your twin had not told you the whole truth about your childhood, your family, and the forces that had shaped you. Why the secrets? Why the silences? You have no choice but to begin again. This has been Alex's reality: a world where memories are just the stories people tell you, where fact and fiction are impossible to distinguish.

This book takes listeners to a very happy yet very dark point in the author Glenn Townsend's life. It is the story of how he met the girl of his prayers and dreams, and how things unfolded. Townsend acknowledges that he is imperfect and needs improvement, just like everyone else. We are all human and have areas where we can grow.

“Smart, insightful, and warm. Dr. Julie is both the expert and wise friend we all need.” –Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and co-host of the ""Dear Therapists"" podcast? Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online...

¿Te sientes abrumado cuando hay mucho por hacer en poco tiempo? ¿Sientes que le das muchas vueltas a los asuntos, reflexionando sobre cada detalle? ¿Conectas con mucha empatía con los que te rodean y esto, en ocasiones, te desgasta? ¿Te cuesta poner límites? Si alguna vez te has sentido así, es posible que seas una persona altamente sensible. A través de esta lectura, te invito a entender qué significa poseer este rasgo de personalidad para que puedas aceptar tu alta sensibilidad y aprender a gestionarla de manera sana y equilibrada.