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Girl In Need Of A Tourniquet: Memoir Of A Borderline Personality (2010)

by Merri Lisa Johnson(Favorite Author)

3.53 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

158005305X (ISBN13: 9781580053051)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Seal Press

review 1: A memoir of one woman's experience with borderline personality disorder - focused mostly on her affair with a woman named Emily. I found the prose compelling, but sometimes suffocating - it was "literary", but often shrouded facts and skipped over what seemed to be important information. A short, incomplete, but sometimes beautiful mess - memoirs aren't supposed to be guidebooks on how to live one's life, and it's important to show that people don't always get better. Sometimes there's just a tunnel without light. We all live with our emotional scarring, BPD is a tricky one, and something that sometimes even years of therapy cannot cure.
review 2: Naturally, being the memoir of a Borderline Personality, this book attracts and repels in equal measures, but it co... morentains a plenitude of useful nuggets about Borderline Personality Disorder. Makes me want to dig out my DBT material and give it a good once-over. Some good, solid clinical information and compelling (and appropriate) quotations and song lyrics, scattered among the eye-popping recounting of MLJ’s sexual exploits and cutting practices. Wouldn’t read it again, but I’m glad I read it once. less

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