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When Hope is Not Enough, Second Edition available in Kindle Store
When Hope is Not Enough, Second Edition is now available for the Kindle! It should be available in printed form on Amazon and other retailers shortly! No related posts.
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Super Exciting News! When Hope is Not Enough, Second Edition is out!
After 7 years of working and reworking the approach, tools and skills, When Hope is Not Enough, Second Edition is out! Currently, it is available in paperback from the publisher’s site: When Hope is Not Enough, Second Edition Paperback It is also available in downloadable eBook format (PDF): When Hope is Not Enough, Second Edition eBook (PDF) The new edition is almost an entirely new book. While the skills from the first edition are still there, they have been enhanced, modified and structured more fully. The first edition was 185 pages long. The second edition is 252 pages. That’s 36% larger. Why is it so much longer? I included several…
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Is it a mood disorder or Borderline Personality Disorder
Here is some insight on moods vs emotions from When Hope is Not Enough: Since I believe that the foundation for BPD is emotional dysregulation, most of the day-to-day conflicts, issues, rages and manipulative behavior spring from this feature of BPD. Emotional dysregulation is the engine that drives the train of BPD. Shame and impulsiveness also contribute no doubt (maybe as fuel and throttle respectively), but the engine itself is emotional dysregulation. In that way, BPD is much like a traditional mood disorder, such as bipolar disorder. The main feature that separates BPD from bipolar disorder is the length and frequency of the “mood” swings. Emotions are more fast-acting than…
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20 Rules for Understanding #BPD
The “most vivid autobiographical memories tend to be of emotional events.” Based on experience with people with BPD, I have come to notice that these emotional memories become linked within one’s mind and outside of time. In other words, a distance of many years does not diminish the linkage between an emotional-laden memory and an event currently taking place. A person with BPD will link long ago negative emotional experiences with current events because it “feels the same.” In that way, the person with BPD will sometimes act on these emotional memories in a way that is inappropriate for the current situation. No related posts.
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It is most important to be effective (rather than right all the time)
One of the biggest problems with being judgmental toward someone with BPD is that it denigrates their feelings and creates the “invalidating environment.”
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Beyond Boundaries now available in a printed format
My follow-up to When Hope is Not Enough, entitled Beyond Boundaries, is now available in a printed format from the publisher. You can buy a copy by clicking on the cover: No related posts.