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Ford, Ann

 
9780984070183: Big Hot Mess Borderlines

Synopsis

This book is about people with borderline personality disorder – the people who make others “walk on eggshells” around them. It talks about their impulsiveness, verbal put-downs, what drives them, how you can keep yourself safe, and about how 70% of borderlines seriously abuse alcohol. So when you are with a borderline there’s a high chance that the person is “under the influence.” Read this book for tips on how to cope with them. Topics include: • Traits of borderline personalities • Their quest for “excitement” • Defining the borderline behaviors • Love, and cruelty • Addicted to bad behaviors • They can be fun and dangerous • Borderlines are very impulsive • Medications and alternatives • Excitement confused with love • Borderlines may cheat at work • Extra trouble in many environments • Love in couples or in families • More exploitation • When families get hurt by borderlines • Borderlines can be publicly humiliating • Warning to children of borderlines • Borderlines can exhaust kids • Kids copy borderline parents • Strategies and tactics to consider • Be wary about gifts and favors • Remember it’s not your fault • Tips to keep calm • Tips for your physical protection • Tips to protect your feelings • Borderlines can change over time

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À propos de l'auteur

Ann Ford Ford has a M.S. in counseling psychology, Phi Kappa Phi, and did post-graduate work and instructed at Johns Hopkins in adult learning styles. She has counseled over 300 clients, primarily as part of large business downsizings, helping people through grief, forced change, and how to start over. She has lectured to university psychology departments on the cycle of domestic violence, taught court-ordered DV offenders new skills and taught the domestic violence cycle to incoming police recruits, and has conducted seminars nationally on sexual harassment. She’s been published in many publications, has been a columnist, and in recent years has won a few literary awards, writing books on multiple subjects, including a children’s book on Hiroshima. She’s been nominated for a broadcasting award from American Women in Radio and Television, and won a Communications Arts Award, for work in her first career, which was radio and television broadcasting.

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