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| Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder | 
 enlarge | Author: Rachel Reiland
Publisher: Hazelden Information & Educational Services
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 7877
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 350
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.7 x 1.3
ISBN: 1592850995
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.858520092
EAN: 9781592850990
ASIN: 1592850995
Publication Date: August 15, 2004
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 Recovery is possible! July 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've read many memoirs of mental illness in my life and I truly believe this one is the best. It's gripping, moving, well written, and a great source of hope and inspiration.
It must have taken an incredible amount of courage to write a book like this. Rachel doesn't shy away from showing the uglier sides of borderline personality disorder, and many reviewers have dismissed her as a "spoiled brat". However, I was impressed by her strength and determination in overcoming her problems, and her guts in sharing her story to help others.
One thing that struck me when I read the book was Rachel's financial situation. From previous reviews, and from the knowledge she had psychoanalysis three times a week, I had assumed she must be a very rich woman who could afford to see her therapist as often as she wanted. This turned out not to be the case at all. In order to pay for her therapy, Rachel had to accept handouts from family members who'd abused her, get into debt, and at one point make a deal with her psychiatrist where she cut back on sessions and he lowered his rates. I think it was this resolve to get the help she needed and pay for it however she could that allowed Rachel to recover, where many others would have given up.
I have just discussed Get Me Out of Here with a friend who has BPD, and who read the book herself a few years ago. She told me it was Rachel's memoir that encouraged her to get back into work, so that she would be able to afford to choose her treatment. She is now seeing a private therapist and well on the way to recovery.
I would recommend this book as a source of hope and insight to anyone who has BPD, and as a source of understanding to anyone who doesn't. Just be prepared to read it with an open mind.
Worth reading. June 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Definitely one worth reading if you are a relative or have been diagnosed with BPD. An interesting account of one woman's journey through therapy, although I agree with a previous reviewer that it came across as being quite a speedy process. I did find it a bit American and schmultzy at times especially towards the end but maybe that's just my cynical side!
fellow BPD sufferer! May 8, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
reading this book i was amazed how much of her life, feelings, thoughts, actions, pain etc reflected my own! It made me realise just how much BPD effects your life and made me realise things about myself that i wouldn't have thought about or noticed without reading this book! I would say its a MUST HAVEA READ for all bpd suffers or people want to try and understand the condition! I couldn't put it down!
 from a BP March 26, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. I think it's important that people remember that each and every BP is different! Just because you have a diagnosis it doesn't mean your experiences or perception of the disorder will be the same - that said it's also true that some people are misdiagnosed - or often experience comorbidity - the presense of another illness such as depression, an anxiety disorder or an eating disorder (on top of BPD).
I found this book comforting in some ways. The author is very honest and writes in a genuine way, in a sense putting herself in a vulnerable place. I related very much to some of the events regarding hospital admission and outpatient psychotherapy. I think there are many things in the book that people aren't willing to talk about - some of the least socially accepted aspects of the disorder.
I would recommend this book to someone with BPD and anyone who has a real interest in the experience of what it's like to have the disorder, remembering it's only one person's experience - not all BP's are the same!
I gave it three stars :).
 daunting December 2, 2007
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I found this book very unhelpful for all parties involved, people with borderline, and those who live with them, and love them. Rachel comes across as a total brat, someone who has 24 hour psychiatric care; to be honest this is not really realistic of living with this disorder. I know because I was diagnosed with borderline about six years ago after a very long time in and out of the mental health services. I am not a spoilt brat, simply someone who has to try and live life feeling every emotion enhanced by at least ten, this being sadness, happiness, anger, loneliness, hopelessness.... it's not about acting like a five year old, its being unable to be rational when things hurt so bad... I don't have a psychiatrist on call 24/7. It's nothing at all like that in real life.
The book doesn't in any way explain her behaviours of feelings, or how she recovers? (People don't simply recover; they learn to cope with years of help...)I find the whole book very misleading and urge anyone who is trying to understand the illness to look elsewhere for help/inspiration/information.
I don't think the book deserves more than a one star rating, and this is only because i can't give it a nil rating.
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