Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder
Do you feel manipulated, controlled, or lied to? Are you the focus of intense, violent, and irrational rages? Do you feel you are "walking on eggshells" to avoid the next confrontation?\ If the answer is "yes," someone you care about may have borderline personality disorder (BPD). Stop Walking on Eggshells has already helped nearly half a million people with friends and family members suffering from BPD understand this destructive disorder, set boundaries, and help their loved ones stop...
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This revised and updated edition of the best-selling Stop Walking on Eggshells helps the friends and family members of people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) understand the condition, help their loved ones find effective treatment, and stop feeling as though they are walking on eggshells to avoid confrontations with BPD sufferers.
Acknowledgments ixPrologue xiiiIntroduction: Intimate Strangers: How This Book Came to Be 1Part 1 Understanding BPD BehaviorChapter 1 Walking on Eggshells: Does Someone You Care About Have BPD? 9Chapter 2 The Inner World of the Borderline: Defining BPD 21Chapter 3 Making Sense of Chaos: Understanding BPD Behavior 49Chapter 4 Living in a Pressure Cooker: How BPD Behavior Affects Non-BPs 67Part 2 Tacking Back Control of Your LifeChapter 5 Making Changes within Yourself 83Chapter 6 Understanding Your Situation: Setting Boundaries and Honing Skills 107Chapter 7 Asserting Your Needs with Confidence and Clarity 135Chapter 8 Creating a Safety Plan 159Chapter 9 Protecting Children from BPD Behavior 177Part 3 Resolving Special IssuesChapter 10 Waiting for the Next Shoe to Drop: Your Borderline Child 199Chapter 11 Lies, Rumors, and Accusations: Distortion Campaigns 213Chapter 12 What Now? Making Decisions about Your Relationship 225Appendix A Causes and Treatment of BPD 237Appendix B Practicing Mindfulness 243Appendix C Reading List and Resources 257References 257
\ From the Publisher"Stop Walking on Eggshells makes good on its promise to restore the lives of people in close relationships with someone diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD). It is a rich guide to understanding and coping with the reactions aroused in others by troubling BPD behaviors that negatively impact relationships. Readers will find this book very useful and beneficial."\ —Nina W. Brown, EdD, professor and Eminent Scholar at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, author of Children of the Self-Absorbed\ "This book is the absolute go-to guide for my clients who are dealing with a loved one with borderline personality disorder. Readable and thorough, it strikes a perfect balance of practical advice and emotional sensitivity. This book has helped so many people break through their sense of confusion and isolation by helping them to name, understand, and respond to the difficulties of this complex and misunderstood disorder."\ —Daniel E. Mattila, M.Div., LCSW\ "This book is urgently needed now that a National Institutes of Health study shows that 6 percent of the general population has borderline personality disorder (BPD). I constantly get requests from families needing resources on BPD, and I recommend Stop Walking On Eggshells almost every time. This second edition is really easy to read and packed with even more useful tips for family members in distress."\ —Bill Eddy, LCSW, attorney, mediator, clinical social worker, and author of High Conflict People in Legal Disputes and Splitting\ "Amazingly, Stop Walking On Eggshells not only teaches readers how to recognize the signs of borderline personality disorder, it also shows how they can make life and relationship decisions based on what they want and need instead of decisions controlled by the illness."\ —Julie A. Fast, author of Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder\ \ \
