The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating

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Overview

Kiera Van Gelder's first suicide attempt at the age of twelve marked the onset of her struggles with drug addiction, depression, post-traumatic stress, self-harm, and chaotic romantic relationships-all of which eventually led to doctors' belated diagnosis of borderline personality disorder twenty years later.

The Buddha and the Borderline is a window into this mysterious and debilitating condition, an unblinking portrayal of one woman's fight against the emotional devastation of borderline personality disorder. This haunting, intimate memoir chronicles both the devastating period that led to Kiera's eventual diagnosis and her inspirational recovery through therapy, Buddhist spirituality, and a few online dates gone wrong. Kiera's story sheds light on the private struggle to transform suffering into compassion for herself and others, and is essential reading for all seeking to understand what it truly means to recover and reclaim the desire to live.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781572247109
  • Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
  • Publication date: 8/1/2010
  • Pages: 280
  • Sales rank: 93,210
  • Series: Unassigned Series
  • Product dimensions: 6.20 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Kiera Van Gelder, MFA, is an artist, educator, and writer diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. An international speaker and advocate, she is featured in the documentary Back from the Edge: Living With and Recovering From Borderline Personality Disorder. She currently lives in Massachusetts at a Buddhist meditation center. For additional information, please visit www.buddhaandborderline.com and www.kieravangelder.com.

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  • Posted August 23, 2010

    Interesting and well written, but may appeal to a limited audience

    The Buddha and the Borderline is the memoir of a woman diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD.) She is determined not to give in to this devastating disorder and turns to dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and Buddhism.

    The author shares the most intimate parts of her life with readers, including self-injury, suicide, psychiatric hospitalizations, therapy, issues with her parents, romantic relationships, and spirituality.

    Starting in the prologue there are very graphic descriptions of self-harm. This could help others to understand what is going on in the head of someone with BPD, but could be very triggering to those who struggle with self-injury.

    The book was well written and at times entertaining. The information and insight on borderline personality disorder and DBT was interesting and helpful, and the author's determination to recover was inspiring.

    Buddhism played a smaller part than I expected from reading the title, and at times I would have appreciated a little more background to better understand the way studying this religion actually benefited her.

    As a person with BPD I enjoyed this book, and would recommend it to other people diagnosed with this disorder and to their families. I don't know how interested others would be in this story.

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  • Posted August 17, 2010

    A fascinating, eye-opening book--and a great read

    Borderline Personality Disorder is a serious mental illness than can often seem bizarre or incomprehensible. It can destroy psyches, relationships, lives, families, and organizations. Yet it's also fair to say that the symptoms of BPD are nothing more than the human condition multiplied by 20. This book--by a brilliant writer who is in recovery from BPD--offers a profoundly insightful, balanced, honest, and compassionate view of the illness, and of the roles that mindfulness and various therapies have played in her recovery. Van Gelder never asks for pity or empathy--and, unlike most memoirists, she consistently understands that she needs to serve her readers, not herself.

    A recurring theme in the book--and an essential element of the book's arc and structure--is that recovery, relationships, and life itself are all built around dialectics, the often-uncomfortable space between two polarities out of which our most helpful and harmful actions can emerge.

    Van Gelder isn't just another person in recovery telling her story; she's a first-rate writer who has written a compelling, greatly entertaining, and sometimes outright funny book. If you want a clear-eyed, down-and-dirty view of BPD that you won't find anywhere else, read this book. And if you want to enjoy a fascinating, engrossing, and expertly told story, read this book.

    Scott Edelstein, author of the forthcoming Sex and the Spiritual Teacher

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