BPD Resources for Family Members

Tami strongly feels that it is important to find the best, most accurate and positive resources to get you quickly pointed down the right path to BPD recovery, or to understanding how to live with and support someone with this disorder. These are "Hall of Famers" that she recommends you take a look at.

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Resources and Links

BPD Facts

Tami Green's Fact Sheet on Borderline Personality Disorder

Books

Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide for Professionals and Families by Dr. John G. Gunderson (Editor), Perry D., Ph.D. Hoffman (Editor) offers both a valuable update for mental health professionals and much-needed information and encouragement for BPD patients and their families and friends. The editors of this eminently practical and accessible text have brought together the wide-ranging and updated perspectives of 15 recognized experts.

Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents: A Complete Guide to Understanding and Coping When Your Adolescent Has BPD by Dr. Blaise A. Aguirre (Author) offers parents, caregivers, and adolescents themselves a complete understanding of this complex and tough-to-treat disorder. It thoroughly explains what it is and what a patient's treatment options are. Dr. Aguirre describes recent advances in treatments and brings into focus what we do and don't know about this condition. He explains the most advanced techniques available, including the revolutionary new treatment called dialectic behavior therapy.

The High Conflict Couple: A Dialectical Behavior Therapy Guide to Finding Peace, Intimacy, & Validation by Dr. Alan E., Ph.D. Fruzzetti (Author), Dr. Marsha M. Linehan (Foreword.) In this book, you will learn a powerful set of emotion regulation tools. Using mindfulness and distress tolerance techniques, you'll learn how to deescalate conflict situations before they have a chance to flare into serious fights Ultimately, you'll learn how to manage problems with negotiation, not conflict, and how to find true acceptance and closeness with your partner.

The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder: New Tools and Techniques to Stop Walking on Eggshells by Randi Kreger (Author), who answers the questions family members most want to ask about: the symptoms and treatment of BPD, including why BPD is so misdiagnosed; how symptoms can differ by age and gender; and how addiction and other disorders complicate BPD. She then outlines how families can set boundaries and communicate differently in order to help themselves and their loved ones cope with this bewildering form of mental illness.

Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified: An Essential Guide for Understanding and Living with BPD (Website and Paperback) by Dr. Robert Friedel (Author). The emotional instability, impulsive behavior and impaired reasoning that often characterize BPD can thus be controlled with therapy and medication, though Friedel also stresses the importance of the patient’s taking responsibility for following through on treatment. For readers who suspect that they or someone they love suffers from BPD, this guide is a good place to start learning how to find help.

Organizations

National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder. The local family support structure is solid and they provide enormously helpful "Family Connections" classes at a price that can't be beat!

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). The largest advocacy and education organization supporting all mental disorders. NAMI offers local support and education classes and advocacy for family members of those suffering from severe mental illlness.

Coaching

Tami Green Life Coach. Tami works with family and friends to translate what is going on inside the mind of someone with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD.) She teaches BPD-language and educates loved ones on how to make rational sense out of behaviors that may seem baffling. Tamis works to create healthy, meaningful relationships and lifestyles.

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