The Buddha & the borderline : my recovery from borderline personality disorder through dialectical behavior therapy, Buddhism, & online dating / Kiera Van Gelder.

By:

Van Gelder, Kiera

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781572248250
1572248254
9781608820603
1608820602

Other title:

Buddha and the borderline

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Buddha & the borderline.DDC classification:

616.85/852 B 22

LOC classification:

RC569.5.B67 V36 2010eb

Other classification:

af101fs

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Contents:

Love bird. Mentally ill, suicidal drug addict ; Girl, recycled ; The diagnosis that dares not speak its name ; Mindfulness and the Big Mac ; Saviors ; Full circle -- Last resort. Short-term solutions ; Dancing with demons ; Flying the coop ; Chalice of the hopeless ; Safety -- Shifts in light. Keys ; Leaving the dysregulation zone ; No blow jobs on the first date ; Empty room ; Learning to ride -- Emergence. First touch ; Exposure ; Being more than one thing ; Control and blame ; Crossing the mom divide ; The tipping point -- Transformation of suffering. Taking refuge ; Reversals ; Bad Buddhist ; Vajrayana ; The meat man ; Mirror of true nature.

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Produced by the publisher.
Held by CAPER-BC, Langara College.

Summary: The Buddha and the Borderline is a riveting, first-person account of one woman's struggle with borderline personality disorder (BPD)-a diagnosis some have called a psychiatric death sentence-and her eventual triumph over her symptoms through dialectical behavior therapy and Buddhist spirituality.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-246).

The Buddha and the Borderline is a riveting, first-person account of one woman's struggle with borderline personality disorder (BPD)-a diagnosis some have called a psychiatric death sentence-and her eventual triumph over her symptoms through dialectical behavior therapy and Buddhist spirituality.