Personally I really dislike the book. I understand it might be helpful to some non-BPDers to deal with some behavior from someone with BPD, but I found the book was basically non applicable to me as a quiet Borderline. It also paints BPD in a bad light in my opinion. The book should be called “how to deal with difficult or manipulative behavior” as that’s all it gets into—it doesn’t even go over the criteria for BPD or into the life of someone with BPD at all. Basically I think the book could apply to the behavior of many people without BPD and isn’t applicable to many people with BPD, especially quiet Borderliners like me. What do you think? I think someone should write a book about Quiet BPD in particular, as we are often afterthoughts or just ignored entirely.