Article 5: How Can I Help the BP in My Life?

Caring, loving and wanting to help are all natural feelings to have. However, each borderline must come to care enough about him/herself to effect real and lasting change. They really cannot be rescued. Whether you'd like to rescue them to truly "save them", or to end their pain, or so that you can have the "them" in your life...

According to Dr. Xavier Amador, professor in Clinical Psychology at Columbia University, denial is a powerful deterant to recovery in mental illness. What is often thought to be immaturity, stubbornness, and defensiveness is a much more complex and difficult problem.

Amador and his colleagues found in a 1994 study that nearly 60 percent of a sample of 221 patients with mental illness would not believe they were ill.t to give is often not the help that someone else wants, needs or knows how to accept...

This article includes excerpts from one of Dr. Amador speeches, a preface based on the writings of Richard O'Connor, PhD, and a video documentary.

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