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Surviving a Borderline Parent

How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds and Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem

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Surviving a Borderline Parent

By: Kimberlee Roth, Freda B. Friedman
Narrated by: Pam Ward
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Between 6 and 10 million people in the US suffer from borderline personality disorder. This book teaches adult children how to overcome the devastating effects of growing up with a parent who suffers from BPD.

Although relatively common, borderline personality disorder (BPD) is often overlooked or misdiagnosed by therapists and clinicians and denied by those who suffer from it. If you were raised by a BPD parent, your childhood was a volatile and painful time. This book, the first written specifically for children of borderline parents, offers step-by-step guidance to understanding and overcoming the lasting effects of being raised by a person suffering from this disorder.

Discover specific coping strategies for dealing with issues common to children of borderline parents - low self-esteem, lack of trust, guilt, and hypersensitivity - and make the major decision whether to confront your parent about his or her condition.

©2003 Kimberlee Roth and Freda B. Friedman (P)2016 Tantor Mental Health Parenting & Families Parents & Adult Children Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Health Suspenseful Personality Disorder Parents
Helpful Information • Insightful Connections • Beneficial Healing Strategies • Healthy Boundary Techniques
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This has brought a lot to light. I'm glad I can go back and listen again.

Loved

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This has been one of the most helpful books in moving me out of the cycles of someone else’s madness and into a safe space where I can heal and create healthy boundaries with challenging people.

What a great tool!

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this book was so insightful. It helped me see that some of the methods I have currently been using we're actually beneficial and healthy. as well as introduced New concepts and made connections I had not previously made before. I definitely recommend this book for any one his parents had a mental disorder

wow. amazing book and perfect narration this book

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This book was useful in helping me to call out things I already suspected. It can't resolve existing issues or heal wounds, but it can help you get started down a path to it. I know I have been much firmer about setting boundaries and feel like I carry a little less guilt these days about interactions with my own suspected borderline parent.

A worthy listen for a particular audience

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To give a fair review I must listen again and give the information within it time to settle in. Otherwise, I run the risk of sounding like an infatuated school girl.

complete validation of what I only suspected !

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I’ve reviewed other books on this topic but this book hits home with me the most. The information in the book is so valuable and informative. I’ve been soul-searching for this kind of knowledge. I’ve always felt like my experience was unique to everyone else until I found this book. Now I’m able to put my experiences in perspective and heal from my past.

Eye Opening and Spot On Details

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Almost everything in this book that seems worthwhile came from another book. Everything else seems like scattered anecdotes and advice that reads identical to the guilt tripping of a borderline parent delivered in a naggy grating voice that might as well belong to your borderline mother.

Check out the books this one references instead

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Not very many trauma informed modalities. Tells you how to change your thinking but not how to heal your trauma.

Too much cbt

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This book was hard to follow as there didn’t seem to be any order to it and thus became repetitive. It seemed to be a culmination of other books on the topic with very little new insights or strategies. Examples that were given in therapy sessions sounded like scripted storytelling. Tried so many times to finish it but just didn’t see the point when it’s the same thing over and over.

Repetitive and unorganized

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I am sure that this audiobook was full of great information and things to do to help me identify what, if any, false statements or feelings arising out of a life with a borderline parent who has been involved in my life from childhood. However, I feel like it was narrated much too fast to be able to understand the text AND take notes. I would h

Too Fast

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