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I Hate You--Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality Kindle Edition
The bestselling guide to understanding borderline personality disorder.
After more than two decades as the essential guide to Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), this new edition now reflects the most up- to-date research that has opened doors to the neurobiological, genetic, and developmental roots of the disorder as well as connections between BPD and substance abuse, sexual abuse, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, ADHD, and eating disorders.
Both pharmacological and psychotherapeutic advancements point to real hope for success in the treatment and understanding of BPD.
This expanded and revised edition remains as accessible and useful as its predecessor and will reestablish this book as the go-to source for those diagnosed with BPD, their family, friends, and colleagues, as well as professionals and students in the field.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherTarcherPerigee
- Publication dateOctober 25, 2010
- Reading age18 years and up
- File size1152 KB
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-SystemsThinker.com
"...a good resource for professionals and families, because it provides therapists with concrete ideas to incorporate both instruction and hope into their practice by providing patients and their families suggestions in simple, non-condescending language. It is by far the best book on the market on BPD."
-Anita Biase, strugglingteens.com
About the Author
Hal Straus has been a professional medical/health writer and editor for more than twenty-five years.
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- ASIN : B0046ECFIG
- Publisher : TarcherPerigee; Revised, Updated edition (October 25, 2010)
- Publication date : October 25, 2010
- Language : English
- File size : 1152 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 290 pages
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About the authors
Jerold J. Kreisman, M.D., is a psychiatrist and leading expert on Borderline Personality Disorder. His international bestseller,
I Hate You, Don't Leave Me, is considered a classic of both the popular and academic literature on BPD and has been translated into many languages around the world. His books, Sometimes I Act Crazy, and Talking To A Loved One With Borderline Personality Disorder, are practical guides for friends and family.
Dr. Kreisman's novel, Necessary Lives, is a psychological thriller.
HAL STRAUS has written five books and numerous articles for such magazines as Ladies' Home Journal, Men's Health, and Redbook.
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There is a lot of confusion with tendency to misdiagnose or fail to know someone is a BPD, especially when PAS is involved; generally for generations. It becomes an ongoing cycle of traumatic abuse and alienation (turning) against others that gets passed from generation to generation unless appropriately recognized and addressed with appropriate evaluation, diagnosis, counseling, and treatment.
Children growing up with a BPD parent, which generally includes PA (Parent Alienation against others with denial of information, truth, contact, and relationships with others); commonly grow up with huge ongoing problems that negatively affect them for life, especially within their own attempts at relationships with others. Knowing the characteristics common to a BPD, and to PA can help individuals to be informed and able to understand and respond more positively (safely). Not being informed can be dangerous and life-threatening for everyone involved. Especially for children, teens, and young adults forced to grow up with a traumatically hateful, abusive, impulsive, irresponsible, immature, deceptive (lying), malicious parent while denied all information, contact, and relationships with others by the BPD parent demanding a child choose only the BPD parent.
Someone with BPD denies all wrongdoing and refuses to make things right, while denying mental illness and the need for appropriate evaluation, diagnosis, and counseling. They deceive self and others, believing their own lies and false ideas/beliefs so that others believe what they SAY even when totally absurd and false with evidence that what they think, believe, and say is FALSE! They are generally charismatic (people like them). They will say and do anything they think might be needed to manipulate, deceive, and get others to agree with them, believe them, and comply with their ever-changing demands. They think and care about no one but self and their own personal agendas. They can be very clever and highly intelligent (educated), but totally lack maturity, common sense, and good judgment. They are generally rebellious as teens with huge problems that increase over time, and without appropriate diagnosis and counseling; they struggle with relationships and generally have a very difficult life to deal with.
The book is OKay, but does not include information about God-given Temperament (Personality and behavioral style), which is important for everyone to have, know, and be able to apply. Temperament can increase the inappropriate responses, attitudes, and traumatic abuses of a BPD; especially a BPD with PAS. Something we deal with on a daily ongoing basis because of the ongoing hatred and traumatic abuses of a BPD with PAS and a history of 5 Maternal generations of total destruction because of it; while those with BPD and PAS deny all wrongdoing and realities involved. Children robbed of a relationship with a noncustodial parent from 4 months, 18 months, & 3 with 2 suicidal teens responding after a lifetime of traumatic abuse, deception, hatred, and life-threatening situations created by their custodial parent and others who are the 4th & 5th Maternal generation forced to be destroyed because those with BPD and PAS deny all wrongdoing and have never been appropriately evaluated, diagnosed, or treated. And, yes, appropriate diagnose, counseling, and treatment are available. The problem is that those with BPD and PAS reject and refuse to acknowledge realities, evaluation, and treatment so that the ongoing cycle passed from generation to generation cannot be broken. Especially when those dealing with it have no idea what's going on or why or how to respond (what to say and do).
Responding incorrectly generally always makes things much worse and increases the sudden angry rages and traumatic, hateful abuses of a BPD with PAS. They can be dangerous and those they abuse can be totally destroyed with no probable cause (evidence or witnesses). Especially in Ohio where no evidence and no witnesses can totally destroy someone based solely on FALSE Allegations (Lies and perjury). Especially when courts (judges, prosecutors, attorneys, children services, and others) believe, assist, and give sole custody to the BPD parent with PAS so that kids are also totally destroyed over time and end up suicidal. A reality and fact that most individuals know nothing about until it happens without knowing or comprehending why that is.
Information is important, and this explains one of the most confusing aspects of Borderline Personality. The basic main FEAR of being ABANDONED, which motivates the BPD with PAS to be demanding, insecure, totally self focused, and even dangerous. It can be worse when FEAR of not getting into Heaven is added to the motivation of the BPD with PAS so that the individual will say and do anything without ability to respond appropriately to those fears; especially without destroying others because of those fears.
The other books, information, and materials available online and otherwise are critical for anyone having BPD, PAS, or having to deal with the realities of someone with BPD,PAS and life-threatening situations that result.
I walked on eggshells constantly, always either in combat during her rages or, feeling like her happier moments were merely cease-fires whose duration were always short and correctly anticipated to be so.
I ended the relationship, believing my ex to be an evil reptilian person who didn't know the meaning of the word "empathy."
But I also didn't know about the ways family and others in relationships with a borderline can cope with the borderline's behavior. The SET-UP technique described by the author could certainly have helped me address my ex's episodes more effectively and more proactively than gearing up for battle and, ultimately, walking away.
The advances in psychotherapies and even in medication (though no medications are specifically indicated for BPD) are helping many borderlines alleviate their symptoms, develop healthier relationships, achieve some degree of remission, and lead lives closer to normal, and show great hope for the future. And "I Hate You, Don't Leave Me" discusses these quite thoroughly and optimistically.
As I progressed through this book, I often wondered what it would have been like had I stayed in the relationship with my ex, knowing about the various coping methods like SET-UP, and working through family therapy with her (my ex was seeing a therapist during the time we were together, but she told me it was for depression and anxiety, not BPD; I pieced together that she had BPD after the relationship ended). Maybe if I had been a little more patient, a little more firm at maintaining boundaries, and definitely a little more supportive and empathic, we may have been able to achieve a longstanding, happy relationship.
One last thing: if you're the type who stops reading the book at the last chapter and doesn't venture into reading the appendices of a book, you may want to break from that routine for this book. Appendix B provides a great discussion of how the borderline personality disorder diagnosis evolved. Definitely worth reading.
Whether you're a student of psychology, a practicing therapist, a borderline struggling to stop the pain, or a family member or relationship partner of a borderline, you will find "I Hate You, Don't Leave Me," an informative, helpful resource in stopping the pain of this terrible disorder.