Recovery Resources

Recovery Resources

Recovery Resources for BPD

The NEABPD Lived Experience Committee, a team of individuals who have traits of BPD or have been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, has diligently reviewed all listed resources. They found these resources to be empowering, hopeful, stigma-free, and accurate. The committee, which meets regularly, is dedicated to providing a hopeful and positive approach to understanding chronic emotion dysregulation and borderline personality disorder. We have taken great care to ensure that the resources recommended are empowering and stigma-free. The committee updates this resource list to keep it up-to-date and accurate. To suggest a resource, please email info@neabpd.org.

Suicide Prevention

988 lifeline – This suicide and crisis lifeline connects callers to a trained counselor through calling, texting, or chatting. These counselors offer free and confidential emotional support 24 hours a day, seven days a week. 

Safety Plan

Stanley Brown – A quick response to provide individuals contemplating suicide or self-harm with a practical means of reducing risk and enhancing safety. This plan consists of six steps- warning signs, internal coping strategies, people and social settings that provide distraction, contact information for during a crisis, professionals to contact during crisis, and ways to make the environment feel safer.

Suicide Safety Plan App– This app provides users with a plan to help them through difficult times and to prevent suicide. Users are able to enter in warming signs, coping strategies, reasons to live, contacts, and places of distraction. They are also provided with emergency crisis resources and support for any suicidal thoughts.

Now Matters – Here you can find a detailed 12 page safety plan guide to prevent or cope with an internal fire.

Websites

National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder has the largest online, virtual library with information about BPD on its website.

Eggshell Therapy is a website with resources for individuals that are intense, sensitive, and gifted individuals. 

McLean Hospital offers information about various treatments by condition and age, as well as information for patients, families, and professionals. 

Very Well Mind – This website is composed of five different sections with a multitude of information ranging from how to live well to different psychological theories and therapies. The goal of Very Well Mind is to support individual’s mental health and help them find balance amongst their busy lives. 

NIMH – BPD section – NIMH provides a multitude of information to help individuals understand everything surrounding BPD such as the diagnosis and treatment process, symptoms, risk factors, research studies, and further help.

Emotions Matter – A network of individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) with the goal of enhancing social interaction, raising awareness, and enhancing the health care systems available to people with BPD.

Blogs

This Borderline Life is a blog written by the Lived Experience Committee of NEABPD.  The blog focuses on real life experiences of living with chronic emotion dysregulation.

https://www.my-borderline-personality-disorder.com/blog – This blog written by DeMarco Bennett provides readers with DBT (dialectical behavior therapy) skills and inspiration and encouragement that there is hope based on her personal story.

Non-Profit Organization

To Write Love on Her Arms – This nonprofit organization works to provide hope and locate resources for those who are considering suicide, self-harm, struggling with addiction, or battling depression.

NAMI – NAMI advocates, educates, and supports public awareness of mental illness so that affected individuals can improve their lives. 

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) – AFSP is committed to creating a community to help individuals affected by suicide. 

DBT-LBC – The goal of this organization is to give the general public and interested parties a source that explicitly identifies providers and programs who consistently offer DBT in a manner that complies with the body of evidence-based research.

YouTube Channels

NEABPD YouTube Channel – The National Education Alliance for BPD has a collection of videos to help educate the public and improve the quality of life for those who suffer from this severe mental illness.

DBT-RU – The goal of the Dialectical Behavior Therapy from Rutgers University channel is to make DBT skills accessible to as many individuals as possible. Here, viewers have access to crucial resources from DBT professionals, including mindfulness, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and distress tolerance.

Dr. Daniel Fox – This channel is for those who have been diagnosed with personality disorders as well as for mental health professionals who treat them. It is Dr. Fox’s hope that this channel will be a positive and useful resource for individuals as they manage and treat their mental health troubles.

Podcasts

Back from the Borderline – This podcast offers a chance for inner transformation- a way for individuals to look at their symptoms as saviors instead of something negative. The host talks about her personal experience and helps listeners turn their chaos into clarity and come out as a stronger and transformed person. 

The BPD Bunch This is a weekly talk that includes a panel of 19 individuals who have recovered from BPD. They discuss BPD-related issues to help others understand the various ways BPD can manifest itself in a person’s life. This panel of individuals also discusses their own recovery journeys to provide viewers with a direction and hope for their own recovery.

Books

  • BPD Demystified by Robert O Friedel
  • Building a Life Worth Living by Marsha Linehan
  • Complex Borderline Personality Disorder: How Coexisting Conditions Affect Your BPD and How You Can Gain Emotional Balance by Daniel J Fox
  • Coping with BPD: DBT and CBT Skills to Soothe the Symptoms of BPD by Blaise Aguirre and Gillian Galen
  • DBT for Dummies by Gillian Galen and Blaise Aguirre
  • Beyond Borderline: True Stories of Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder by John G Gunderson and Perry Hoffman
  • Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder by Rachel Reiland
  • Mindfulness for Borderline Personality Disorder: Relieve Your Suffering Using the Core Skill of Dialectical Behavior Therapy by Blaise Aguirre and Gillian Galen
  • The Mindfulness Solution for Intense Emotions: Take Control of Borderline Personality Disorder with DBT by Cedar R. Koons
  • The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces by Courtney Cook

Workbooks

  • The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook: An Integrative Program to Understand and Manage Your BPD by Daniel J Fox
  • The Stronger Than BPD Journal: DBT Activities to Help Women Manage Emotions and Heal from Borderline Personality Disorder The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook: An Integrative Program to Understand and Manage Your BPD by Daniel J Fox
  • The Stronger Than BPD Journal: DBT Activities to Help Women Manage Emotions and Heal from Borderline Personality Disorder by Debbie Corso and Kathryn Hall
  • Self-Directed DBT Skills: A 3-Month DBT Workbook to Regulate Intense Emotions and Create Lasting Change with Dialectical Behavior Therapy by Kiki Feeling and Elliott Weiner
  • The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook by Matthew McKay, Jeffrey C. Wood, Jeffrey Brantley
  • DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets by Marsha Linehan
  • Self-Directed DBT Skills: A 3-Month DBT Workbook to Regulate Intense Emotions and Create Lasting Change with Dialectical Behavior Therapy by Kiki Feeling and Elliott Weiner
  • The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook by Matthew McKay, Jeffrey C. Wood, Jeffrey Brantley
  • DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets by Marsha Linehan

 

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