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Other Helpful Resources on Anxiety and Stress Management Indigo Ocean Dreams: 4 Children's Stories Designed to Decrease Stress, Anger and Anxiety While Increasing Self-Esteem and Self-Awareness (Audio CD) by Lori Lite Indigo Dreams: Meditation and Relaxation Bedtime Stories for Children, Improve Sleep, Manage Stress and Anxiety [UNABRIDGED] (Audio CD) by Lori Lite A Boy and a Bear: The Children's Relaxation Book by Lori Lite, M. Hartigan (Illustrator) The Goodnight Caterpillar: Muscular Relaxation and Meditation Bedtime Story for Children, Improve Sleep, Manage Stress and Anxiety by Lori Lite Borderline Personality Disorder Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Back Your Life When Someone You Care About has Borderline Personality by Paul T. Mason and Randi Kreger This book is a self-help guide that helps the family members and friends of individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) understand this self-destructive disorder and learn what they can do to cope with it and take care of themselves. It is designed to help them understand how the disorder affects their loved ones and recognize what they can do to get off the emotional roller coasters and take care of themselves. I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality I often ask persons or clients who reports their loved one exhibit borderline characteristics or behaviors to read this book. Kreisman and Straus do an excellent job of explaining the root causes, behaviors, and treatment of the disorder as well as coping skills for dealing with a person with BPD. This book will help you identify and understand borderline behavior. The key is learning to cope with those who are have this misunderstood and painful disorder.It was written several years ago, before there was effective treatment for the disorder. It may instill hopelessness and even suicidal if you are reading it and discover you exhibit these characteristics or behaviors. There is hope. Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life: How Dialectical Behavior Therapy Can Put You in Control by Scott E. Spradlin Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a therapeutic technique designed to counter extreme emotional reactions — before they lead to overwhelming anger, depression, anxiety, and stress-related ailments. An eclectic mix of cognitive-behavioral techniques, skills training, Zen, and existentialism, DBT helps readers pay attention to their emotions, assess their blocks to controlling them, become less judgmental of themselves when they lose control, and ultimately eliminate overpowering feelings. There are many helpful worksheets and assessment exercises in this breakthrough program. DBT is helpful for many, not all, persons with borderline personality disorder. It requires tremendous motivation to overcome engrained behaviors that may have been developed over time and were essential for survival but now keep you from living life the way you want. Bipolar Disorder An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison What's it like to have an incurable, but manageable disease? One that changes your perceptions of the world around you, loosens your inhibitions or cripples your ability to do anything? Kay Redfield Jamison pours out her experience of living with a mood disorder, using descriptive, image-evoking prose. With breathtaking honesty she tells of her own manic depression, the bitter costs of her illness, and its paradoxical benefits: "There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness.... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality." This is one of the best scientific autobiographies ever written, a combination of clarity, truth, and insight into human character. |
