Stop Caretaking the Borderline or Narcissist: How to End the Drama and Get On with Life
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (912 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01GUBLHYA |
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| Number of Pages | : | 237 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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This is worth 10 Stars! She Having been raised in a family with a borderline/narcissist mother, and an enabling father, I have been in denial most of my life about how dysfunctional our life was. This book has forced my eyes open in a way that 7 years with my therapist could not do. Granted, as a recovering Caretaker, I was ready to hear the whole truth about how dysfunctional I had become and how much work is ahead of me to fix myself and not the other people in my life, but this book got into every nook and cranny of dysfunction and called it what it was. I am shocked at all. Listen to Your Gut and Read this Book If anyone has hurt you emotionally, physically or mentally on a continued basis and you're trying to decide whether to leave or not, then this book is for you. If you have left an abusive person, then this book is for you. If you have or had controlling parents, boyfriend, girlfriends or boss, then this book is for you. This book could also be helpful if you are or have been involved with an alcoholic or addict. The author does an excellent job at the describing these abusive people, how to let go of them and how to rebuild your life.A bonus is that. Jules said The BP/NP-Caretaker relationship is poisonous hell. This book will help you to break free.. By the time I purchased this book some months ago I had been in therapy for a while, trying desperately to comprehend and free myself from the hellish and poisonous environment I was trapped into as a caretaker. Through excellent therapy I had started making changes and had started living the life I wanted to live. The additional insights and understanding that I gained reading and working with Margalis Fjelstad's book have been a perfect complement to what I have learnt through years of therapy about myself as a caretaker and as a person, and about
These negative behaviors don't happen once in a while; they happen almost continuously in their intimate relationships - most often and especially with their caretaker family member. However, in intimate relationships, they can be emotional, aggressive, demeaning, illogical, paranoid, accusing, and controlling - in the extreme. This compromises the caretaker's self-esteem, distorts their thinking processes, and locks them into a victim-persecutor-rescuer pattern with the borderline or narcissist. People with borderline or narcissistic personality disorders have a serious mental illness that primarily affects their intimate, personal, and family relationships. It describes how to get out of destructive interactions with the borderline or narcissist and how to take new, more effective actions to focus on personal wants, needs, and life goal