207 pages
English language
Published Oct. 11, 1989 by Avon Books.
Jerold J. Kreisman: I hate you - don't leave me (1989, Avon Books)
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"AM I LOSING MY MIND?"
People with Borderline Personality Disorder experience such violent and frightening mood swingsthat they often fear for their sanity. They can beeuphoric one moment, despairing and depressed thenext. There are an estimated 10 million sufferersof BPD living in America today -- each displayingremarkably similar symptoms:
- a shaky sense of identity
- sudden violent outbursts
- oversensitivity to real or imagined rejection
- brief, turbulent love affairs
- frequent periods of intense eating disorders, drug abuse, and other self-destructive tendencies
- an irrational fear of abandonment and an inability to be alone
For years BPD was difficult to describe, diagnose, andtreat. But now, for the first time, Dr. Jerold J. Kreismanand health writer Hal Straus offer much-neededprofessional advice, helping victims and their familiesto understand and cope with this troubling, shockingly widespread affliction.
"AM I LOSING MY MIND?"
People with Borderline Personality Disorder experience such violent and frightening mood swingsthat they often fear for their sanity. They can beeuphoric one moment, despairing and depressed thenext. There are an estimated 10 million sufferersof BPD living in America today -- each displayingremarkably similar symptoms:
- a shaky sense of identity
- sudden violent outbursts
- oversensitivity to real or imagined rejection
- brief, turbulent love affairs
- frequent periods of intense eating disorders, drug abuse, and other self-destructive tendencies
- an irrational fear of abandonment and an inability to be alone
For years BPD was difficult to describe, diagnose, andtreat. But now, for the first time, Dr. Jerold J. Kreismanand health writer Hal Straus offer much-neededprofessional advice, helping victims and their familiesto understand and cope with this troubling, shockingly widespread affliction.