borderline personality disorder

Provides information about borderline personality disorder, a condition characterized by feelings of loneliness, fear of abandonment, self-destructiveness, stormy relationships, and inability to achieve intimacy, and describes strategies designed to help friends and family members cope with the illness.

A twenty-nine-year-old accountant, wife, and mother, Rachel Reiland discovered she had borderline personality disorder after her discharge from a psychiatric ward. Her honesty in facing her mental illness prompted her to write a book so others would know what it feels like.