The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook: An Integrative Program to Understand and Manage Your BPD (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) Paperback – May 1, 2019

This book is amazing. It constantly reassures you that you are not alone and gives great writing prompts. The systems put in place to help you really dig deep into your BDP have been working wonders with me. I’ve recently been diagnosed with BPD and had a friend recommend this book to me. I’m glad she did. It’s opened my eyes to this disorder and has given me so much clarity. This book paired with the DBT work skills work book has done great things for me in terms of my recovery and overall well being.

This workbook was very useful, I highly recommend going through the whole book. This book helped me to improve my mental health.

I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder at 26. This helped me understand my disorder, my symptoms, my triggers, and taught me so many tools on how to emotionally regulate and live in a positive future

First, thank you Dr. Fox. You have helped me work with my therapy team to find a diagnosis that fits because watching your videos on YouTube encouraged me to be honest with myself and my doctors without fear of stigma and failure. Your compassion and belief that people with BPD/people on the BPD spectrum can seek treatment to effectively work toward remission and reduction in symptoms felt singular when researching BPD.Now for my fellow BPD'ers/potential BPD'ers/BPD Spectrum folks out there: This workbook SUCKS. It's also the best thing that has happened to my therapy journey. Anytime you want to put this book down, it's like Dr. Fox sees the future - there is almost always a moment when I want to chuck it across the room and then there's a sentence that reads, "I know you want to chuck this book across the room right now. Changing thoughts is HARD, but you've got this." Or "You did a hard thing, you should definitely eat a piece of cheesecake." I'm paraphrasing, but it is UNCANNY that he knows when you're going to start ramping up and puts a word of encouragement in the chapter. Like, guys, THIS WORKBOOK WILL NOT ABANDON YOU AND WILL ENCOURAGE YOU TO EAT CAKE.This book will also make you feel ALL KINDS OF WAYS. It'll make you write down stuff that is HARD and EMBARRASSING and FRUSTRATING. It might trigger an episode. It might trigger five episodes. Dr. Fox legit knows this, because therapy is HARD. There are breaks built into the book and he repeatedly reassures you that you are totally, completely, 100% okay to put the book down and walk away and use a coping strategy and come back when you're ready. But, here's the rub: If you keep doing the work, especially if you're taking it to therapy with you, you read back the stuff you wrote down that was hard and embarrassing and frustrating and you start gaining CLARITY and INSIGHT and TOOLS to manage your emotions. As you learn more about yourself, you gain knowledge and skills to challenge false beliefs, recognize triggers, categorize feelings and relationships, and build strategies that will legit set a course for better days with fewer episodes. Those moments of recognition and discovery are called "breakthroughs" I guess, but they legit feel like a veil lifting and it's squirrely feeling knowing that our brains are super great at hiding things about ourselves as a protective mechanism.I'm not 100% better. I'm not even 100% done with my workbook, but I feel like I now have the words and the homework to effectively communicate with my therapist. That is priceless.Buy the book. Watch Dr. Fox's YouTube channel.p.s. I haven't devalued this book and I've been using it for four months. ;)

Amazing and helpful book but came damaged.

This book helped me in more ways than one.

I got this workbook for my 17-year-old daughter, and it's been a huge help. It offers practical exercises and strategies that have helped her manage emotions and understand her feelings better. I appreciate the integrative approach—it doesn’t feel clinical or detached but is supportive and relatable.

Helps a lot with understanding BPD