Stronger Than BPD: The Girl's Guide to Emotional Regulation Using DBT

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) can be a challenging condition, but with the right tools, you can overcome its symptoms. In this unique guide, influential BPD advocate and blogger Debbie Corso offers an easy-to-use primer on dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), as well as powerful peer-to-peer support for managing your worst BPD symptoms.

If you have BPD, you may experience extreme emotional ups and downs, which can make navigating everyday life more difficult. As a result, you may have trouble maintaining relationships, seeing yourself clearly, or reaching your career goals. However, it's important to remember that you are not alone and that BPD is not your fault. Most importantly, you need to know that you are strong.

With the right tools, you can overcome the symptoms of your BPD, and this book will show you how. Written by a BPD survivor and advocate, "Stronger Than BPD" offers practical, evidence-based DBT skills to help you manage the intense emotions and negative self-image that can occur with BPD.

This easy-to-use guide helps you apply the fundamental components of DBT, such as mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness, to everyday situations that can trigger your symptoms. Through personal examples and real-life stories, you'll see how others have put these skills to work in their own lives to find relief. You'll even learn how social media can help you heal.

Remember, BPD is a part of your life, but it doesn't have to define you. If you are ready to take control of your symptoms using powerful, evidence-based DBT skills, this friendly guide will light the way.

This book has been selected as an Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Self-Help Book Recommendation, an honor bestowed on outstanding self-help books that are consistent with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) principles and that incorporate scientifically tested strategies for overcoming mental health difficulties. Used alone or in conjunction with therapy, our books offer powerful tools readers can use to jump-start changes in their lives.

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