Get Me Out of Here
My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
By Rachel Reiland
Book Description
Get Me Out of Here is a very unique and rare insight to how a person with Borderline Personality Disorder perceives life, everyday issues, conflicts with family and her therapist while dedicating herself to recovery. In Rachel Reiland's memoir she opens her heart and mind to tell the story of her struggle to overcome BPD.
A married mother of three and a professional accountant, Reiland tells the story of her life, which included all-too-familiar episodes of anorexia, promiscuity, impulsiveness, suicide attempts, institutionalization in a mental hospital, and often unrelenting, anger-intensive, violent, and unpredictable behavior.
The book is not a guide for treatment but how one person dealt with and overcame a serious personality disorder. She discusses her childhood, early years, teenage difficulties and aimless college experiences. Her conflict with parents, siblings, children and her supporting husband are expressed along with her dealing with her insecurities and the power struggle with her therapist.
This is an embracing saga of recovery for sufferers of the disorder, caretakers and loved ones that are involved. For those without the disorder it is a beautiful insight into how they look, hear and think about everyday life that we take as normal and effects them with so much dramatic actions.
If you have a loved one suffering from BPD, this book will give you insight into how deep BPD truly is. 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.
About the Author
Rachel Reiland (a pseudonym) is a wife, a mother of three, and an accountant who is recovering from anorexia and borderline personality disorder - explosive anger, manipulative behaviors, and self-destructive episodes- including bouts of anorexia, substance abuse, and sexual promiscuity. "This isn't a cookie-cutter book. It isn't a recipe for therapy. It does, however, show a real life example of how out-of-control behaviors can be diffussed, how the seemingly unreachable can be reached. Most of all it shows that there is hope." says Reiland
# Paperback: 350 pages
# Publisher: Hazelden (September 1, 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1592850995 |
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