I Hate You—Don't Leave Me (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
. . . It scares me. It makes me go up and down and back and forth, and I hate it. I will die if it doesn’t let me alone. —From the diary of a borderline patient True life is lived when tiny changes occur. —Leo Tolstoy Borderline Personality Disorder is the only major psychiatric illness for which there are more evidence-based studies demonstrating efficacy from psychosocial therapies than for pharmacological (drug) treatments. Thus, unlike the treatment for most other disorders, medications are viewed as secondary components to psychotherapy. Not only have several psychotherapy approaches been shown to be effective, the arduous and sometimes extensive endeavor of psychotherapy has also been shown to be cost-effective for the treatment of personality disorders.1 Psychotherapy as a treatment for BPD has come a long way since the publication of this book’s first edition. Spurred by rigorous research and constant refinement by clinicians, two primary schools of therapy have emerged—the cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic approaches.
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