Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir
By: Marsha M. Linehan
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of…
Want to Read $ 4.99"Somehow I lost all ability to regulate not only my emotions but my behavior as well.... It was an alarmingly rapid and complete descent into hell."-Marsha M. Linehan, Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir
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1. Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified: An Essential Guide for Understanding and Living with BPD
By: Robert O. Friedel , None , Dixianne Penney , Patricia Woodward
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Over six million Americans suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), a chronic, disabling … read more
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- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
- self help
2. Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
By: Rachel Reiland
3.95
Format: 436 pages, Paperback
With astonishing honesty, this memoir, Get Me Out of Here, reveals what mental illness looks and fe… read more
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- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- mental illness
- nonfiction
- self help
" Tempting as it may be to draw one conclusion or another from my story and universalize it to apply to another's experience, it is not my intention for my book to be seen as some sort of c…"-Rachel Reiland, Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
"I couldn’t trust my own emotions. Which emotional reactions were justified, if any? And which ones were tainted by the mental illness of BPD? I found myself fiercely guarding and limiting my emotiona…"-Rachel Reiland, Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
"You survived by seizing every tiny drop of love you could find anywhere, and milking it, relishing it, for all it was worth. And as you grew up, you sought love, anywhere you could find it, whether i…"-Rachel Reiland, Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
"(...) istnieje pewna ciekawa teoria grzechu pierworodnego, o której chciałem ci opowiedzieć (...) – niektórzy teologowie uważają, że w przypadku Adama i Ewy nie chodziło o zjedzenie zakazanego jabłka…"-Rachel Reiland, Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
3. The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
By: Elyn R. Saks
4.31
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
Elyn Saks is a success by any measure: she's an endowed professor at the prestigious University of … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
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- biography memoir
- mental illness
- nonfiction
"in my experience, the words “now just calm down"-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
"some truths that were too difficult and frightening to know."-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
"The humanity we all share is more important than the mental illnesses we may not"-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
"I needed to put two critical ideas together: that I could both be mentally ill and lead a rich and satisfying life."-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
4. The Man with the Beautiful Voice: And More Stories from the Other Side of the Couch
By: Lillian B. Rubin
3.56
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In her long career as a psychotherapist, acclaimed author Lillian Rubin occasionally encountered pa… read more
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- memoir
- psychology
5. The Meaning of Anxiety
By: Rollo May
3.68
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
Rollo May challenges the idea that "mental health is living without anxiety," believing it is essen… read more
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6. DBT Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Guide to Dialectical Behavior Therapy
By: Sheri Van Dijk
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
Originally developed for the treatment of borderline personality disorder, dialectical behavior the… read more
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7. Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
By: Irvin D. Yalom
3.66
Format: 162 pages,
The collection of ten absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteri… read more
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8. The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
By: Irvin D. Yalom , Nicola Ferguson
3.66
Format: 162 pages,
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9. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
By: Kay Redfield Jamison
4.06
Format: 663 pages,
The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of th… read more
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10. Mindfulness for Borderline Personality Disorder: Relieve Your Suffering Using the Core Skill of Dialectical Behavior Therapy
By: Blaise A. Aguirre , Gillian Galen
4.23
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
If you are like many others living with borderline personality disorder (BPD), you know what it's l… read more
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11. The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating
By: Kiera Van Gelder
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Kiera Van Gelder's first suicide attempt at the age of twelve marked the onset of her struggles wit… read more
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12. I Hate You, Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
By: Jerold J. Kreisman , Hal Straus
4.50
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
"AM I LOSING MY MIND?" People with Borderline Personality Disorder experience such violent and frig… read more
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13. Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder: How to Keep Out-of-Control Emotions from Destroying Your Relationship
By: Marsha M. Linehan , Shari Y. Manning
4.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) can be intensely caring, warm, smart, and funny--… read more
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14. Beyond Borderline: True Stories of Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
By: John G. Gunderson , None
3.82
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
“These survivors hit their mark in helping to change the conversation about borderline personality … read more
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- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
- self help
"When someone is diagnosed with depression, you won’t hear them say, “I am depression."-John G. Gunderson, Beyond Borderline: True Stories of Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
"BPD patients are often misdiagnosed; for example, nearly 40 percent of people diagnosed as bipolar are, in fact, borderline. There is a heritability factor of about 67 percent. Interestingly, it is o…"-John G. Gunderson, Beyond Borderline: True Stories of Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
15. The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know About Living with BPD
By: Kim L. Gratz , Alexander L. Chapman , Perry D. Hoffman
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
If you or someone you love is struggling with borderline personality disorder (BPD), you need up-to… read more
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16. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
By: Richard C. Schwartz
4.15
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts t… read more
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- mental health
- nonfiction
- self help
"The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-…"-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
"IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that …"-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
17. Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir
By: Marsha M. Linehan
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of… read more
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- biography memoir
- mental illness
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Somehow I lost all ability to regulate not only my emotions but my behavior as well.... It was an alarmingly rapid and complete descent into hell."-Marsha M. Linehan, Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir
18. Complex Borderline Personality Disorder: How Coexisting Conditions Affect Your BPD and How You Can Gain Emotional Balance
By: Daniel J. Fox
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
There’s no one-size-fits-all treatment for BPD—especially if you have a coexisting condition. BPD r… read more
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- psychology
- mental health
19. The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces
By: Courtney Cook
3.87
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the 2022 Lammy Award for Bisexual & the 2022 Heartland Booksellers Award A Book Riot … read more
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- mental illness
- nonfiction
20. Becoming Safely Embodied: A Guide to Organize Your Mind, Body and Heart to Feel Secure in the World
By: Deirdre Fay
4.01
Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition
Whether you are stuck in the distress of life, or appear like nothing’s wrong, you may have faced t… read more
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- mental health
21. The Neurodivergent Friendly Workbook of DBT Skills
By: Sonny Jane Wise
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
Did you know that Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills can be useful for Autistic and ADHD individu… read more
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