Jerold J. Kreisman & Hal Straus 
Sometimes I Act Crazy 
Living with Borderline Personality Disorder

A source of hope, expert advice, and guidance for people with
borderline personality disorder and those who love them

Do you experience frightening, often violent mood swings that make
you fear for your sanity? Are you often depressed? Do you engage in
self-destructive behaviors such as drug or alcohol abuse, anorexia,
compulsive eating, self-cutting, and hair pulling? Do you feel
empty inside, or as if you don’t know who you are? Do you dread
being alone and fear abandonment? Do you have trouble finishing
projects, keeping a job, or forming lasting relationships?

If you or someone you love answered yes to the majority of these
questions, there’s a good chance that you or that person suffers
from borderline personality disorder, a commonly misunderstood and
misdiagnosed psychological problem afflicting tens of millions of
people. Princess Diana was one of the most well-known BPD
sufferers.

As a source of hope and practical advice for BPD sufferers and
those who love them, this new book by Dr. Jerold J. Kreisman and
Hal Straus, bestselling authors of I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me,
offers proven techniques that help you:

* Manage mood swings

* Develop lasting relationships

* Improve your self-esteem

* Keep negative thoughts at bay

* Control destructive impulses

* Understand your treatment options

* Find professional help

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Note to the Reader.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

1. Borderline Basics. Action Steps: A Quick BPD Checklist.

2. Fears of Abandonment. Action Steps: Dealing with Borderline
Fears of Abandonment.

3. Unstable Interpersonal relationships. Action Steps: Dealing
with Intense Relationships.

4. Identity Disturbance. Action Steps: Establishing a Sense of
Self.

5. Destructive Impulsivity. Action Steps: Managing
Impulsivity.

6. Suicidal Behaviors and Self-Mutilation. Action Steps: Dealing
with Self-Destructive Behaviors.

7. Mood Instability.

8. Emptiness. Action Steps: Filling the Emptiness.

9. Anger. Action Steps: Strategies for Coping with borderline
Rage.

10. reality Distortions: Paranoia and Dissociation. Action
Steps: Dealing with Borderline Psychosis.

11. Treatment Strategies and Communication Techniques. Action
Steps: Finding the Right Therapist. Action Steps: General
Approaches to Communication.

12. Prognosis and Directions of Future Research.

Resources.

Notes.

Index.

Über den Autor

JEROLD J. KREISMAN, M.D., is a psychiatrist and leading
world expert on Borderline Personality Disorder. His 1989
bestseller, I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me, is considered a classic of
both the popular and academic literature on BPD.

HAL STRAUS has written five books and numerous articles
for such magazines as Ladies‘ Home Journal, Men’s Health, and
Redbook.