Borderline Personality Disorder: Growing Up With a BPD Mother or Dad - Our Childhood From Hell (Four Author Anthology)

Borderline Personality Disorder not only affects the person afflicted with it, but also their families and loved ones, sometimes even more so than the BPD sufferer herself/himself. When it is a parent that is afflicted, turmoil, strife and physical and emotional abuse of the children (and sometimes even the other parent) can result.

This book was written by four authors (all of them adult daughters) with four separate stories - three about their Borderline Personality Disordered mothers, and one about her BPD father. They are publishing their gripping stories because they believe it is important that families and survivors in similar situations know that they are not alone.

No one understands what goes on behind closed doors in such families - except those coping with their own BPD parent. Often, children in these families are taught at a young age that the turmoil exhibited by the BPD mother or father is the child's fault - that the child must be doing something wrong, must be a bad child or even unlovable. This so often causes terrible and even irreparable psychological damage to the child, even throughout adulthood.

Many children of BPD parents say that simply knowing that the turmoil and abuse wasn't their own fault, but the fault solely of the BPD parent, would have been (and later is, once realization occurs) a huge psychological help. And additionally, that the validation that the torment actually happened to them when the world outside of their closed family doors had no idea, is a tremendous relief as well.

If you are a child of a BPD mom or dad, these four authors know your pain and torment only too well. It is their hope that their stories and advice will help you as you go forward in your own life, with or without your BPD parent.