Compassion for Annie: A Healthy Response to Mental Disorders

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In Compassion for Annie, the many challenges of BPD are explored through the stories of Annie and Fred, a fictional married couple. Although Annie and Fred are products of author Marilyn Dowell’s mind, their behavior is based on careful research of the disorder.

In each chapter, some disturbing facet of BPD is acted out in a way that is informative to those who have little or no experience with the disorder and familiar to those who do. Beyond...
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Overview

In Compassion for Annie, the many challenges of BPD are explored through the stories of Annie and Fred, a fictional married couple. Although Annie and Fred are products of author Marilyn Dowell’s mind, their behavior is based on careful research of the disorder.

In each chapter, some disturbing facet of BPD is acted out in a way that is informative to those who have little or no experience with the disorder and familiar to those who do. Beyond merely demonstrating the typical features of BPD, Compassion for Annie offers insights for responding to the sufferer in a kind, compassionate manner.

In addition to the dialogues between Annie and Fred, Dowell includes an analysis of the interaction, a prayer specific to the chapter topic, and a list of suggested reading for further information.

Dowell wrote this book as a labor of love — a means of understanding a loved one with the disorder and a way of helping others. Compassion for Annie is intended both for those with the disorder and those who love them — reading it is one step toward finding a way out of the labyrinth.

The good news, as Dowell points out, is that with knowledge and the help of trained mental health professionals, BPD is “an affliction that can be healed.”
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781936782482
  • Publisher: Langdon Street Press
  • Publication date: 10/28/2011
  • Pages: 174
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Marilyn Dowell enjoyed a long public service career in the field of librarianship. She served in college and university libraries at such institutions as Colorado State University, Fort Collins; University of Northern Colorado, Greeley; Maricopa County Community College District, Phoenix, AZ; and Tarrant County College, Fort Worth, TX. She also served in a public library as Assistant Director of Libraries for the City of Irving, TX.

Marilyn received her M. A. from the University of Denver. Later, a life-long learner, she enrolled in a number of post-graduate classes in management at Arizona State University, and in psychology at the University of Texas at Arlington. She received her certification in Education & Dispute Resolution at North Lake College, Irving, TX.

An avid reader, Marilyn's interests are in the fields of emotional intelligence, management, psychology, religion, and spirituality.

Marilyn's interest in mental disorders, specifically borderline personality disorder, is motivated by her deep and abiding love for friends and family who suffer from BPD. She believes that through prayer and therapy her loved ones can be healed and offers that hope to her readers. She writes from the perspective of a layperson addressing the general public.
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