Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder by Rachel Reiland Item# 0995 447 pgs., softcover 1592850995

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This emotionally powerful and riveting book is the true story of someone with BPD who recovered from BPD. Not just got better, but recovered.

This book eloquently shows:

• Just what it's like to have BPD; both thoughts and emotions. It takes you inside the head of someone with BPD in a way no other book in print does.

• What it's like to have a loved one with BPD, especially a parent or partner.

• An example of a good, healing clinician/patient relationship.

• Other problems that go along with BPD, including an eating disorder.

Rachel, the main character, is midway between an "acting in" and "acting out" BP: that is, she raged, blamed and criticized, but she also showed many acting-in behaviors such as anorexia and taking dangerous risks.

• It demonstrates to clinicians, non-BPs and people with BPD that people with BPD do get better!

• It is a fascinating story in and of itself, even if you have no interest in BPD.

After four years of therapy and three psychiatric hospitalization, she is the most recovered former BP I (Randi Kreger) have had the chance to meet. If you want to understand what goes on inside the head of someone with BPD, this book is a must-read. Just make sure you have a box of tissues nearby.

Please click on the links below for a glimpse of the book (some editing was done on these chapters so they are not exactly as they are in the final book). Ordering information is to the right. Please note that this book is not available elsewhere on the web. It is only available via the methods at the right of this page.

• Read Chapter One