Love for a Person with Borderline Personality Disorder: How to Manage Out-of-Control Emotions

People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) can be very caring, tender, intelligent, and cheerful — and yet their behavior can push away even the closest people. If you have a difficult relationship with someone who suffers from BPD, then this book is for you. Dr. Shari Manning will help you understand why your spouse, family member, or friend has such uncontrollable emotions and how to change your reaction to them. You will learn simple yet effective strategies that will help diffuse the situation, set clear boundaries, and radically change the relationship. Written in a compassionate and hopeful tone and addressed to family members and friends, this is the first book based on evidence-based methods of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) — the most effective approach to treating BPD.