Surviving A Borderline Parent: How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds and Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem Paperback – 18 Aug. 2005

A GRIPPING READ. I was able to match many of the incidents described in this book with events during my childhood. It was interesting and helped me to understand some of my hangups now I'm an adult with a family of my own. In the end it was a comforting book because I felt proud that I had survived having a mother, who was the very scarey antithesis of my friends' mothers, and made a success of my life in spite of her. An excellent book which tackles a difficult subject with clarity and commonsense.

Is my favorite book, every day before going to bed to read a few pages, and can offer me have inspired and will continue to look down, will recommend to my friends to buy

A truly helpful read, and has helped me to cope with my mother. Really helpful exercises that eliminates feelings of isolation, guilt, sadness and low self esteem.. which transform you into a person of power, control and having a positive outlook to coping with an abusive mother..

My relationship with my borderline parent could have been so different, probably better, if I had read this book years ago. I am only glad I read it before they died. There are some parts where the technical detail is hard to digest but I guess that shows it's been thoroughly researched.

My mother is bipolar (which she is currently denying) but she displays almost all the traits of a borderline parent.This book helped me realise that some of things she subjected me and my sisters to were not normal and not the signs of a good parent. I recommend this book if your parent is borderline or severely bipolar

This book changed my life. It explained the tricky, controlling, hard to pin down negative experiences my family suffered. I had never heard of the condition until a friend said she thought my mother had it. Reading this book validated mine and and my sister's experience and reassured us it was 'real.' What a relief.

I found this book truly life hanging in understanding what was always wrong with my mother, thank you for writing it

I had a borderline mother, maybe still have, hope not, hope she has gone to meet her maker and hope its not the same maker as mine. Problem is this book is depressing, we all know what a bitch we had to deal with, as adults we need to know how to deal with her, not feel more sorry for ourselves........I wanted to slit my wrists couldn't finish the whole thing