Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder. "What the hell was that?" raged Rachel Reiland when she read the diagnosis written in her medical chart. As the 29-year old accountant, wife, and mother of young children would soon discover, it was the diagnosis that finally explained her explosive anger,...
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Borderline Personality Disorder. "What the hell was that?" raged Rachel Reiland when she read the diagnosis written in her medical chart. As the 29-year old accountant, wife, and mother of young children would soon discover, it was the diagnosis that finally explained her explosive anger, manipulative behaviors, and self-destructive episodes- including bouts of anorexia, substance abuse, and sexual promiscuity. With astonishing honesty, Reiland's memoir reveals what mental illness feels like and looks like from the inside, and how healing from such a devastating disease is possible through intensive therapy and the support of loved ones.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781592850990 (1592850995)
ASIN: 1592850995
Publish date: August 4th 2004
Publisher: Hazelden
Pages no: 436
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Drama,
Health,
Self Help,
Biography Memoir,
Psychology,
Mental Health,
Mental Illness
The following quote is from the epilogue of the book and it speaks about it in general terms. "Tempting as it may be to draw one conclusion or another from my story and universalize it to apply to another's experience, it is not my intention for my book to be seen as some sort of cookie...