Resources NEPDA Members Find Helpful
Websites & More
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Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. Dial 988. Staffed by trained crisis counselors.
Masshelpline.com or 833-773-2445. Free, immediate, confidential, access to help. Will connect you directly with a clinician. Insurance not required.
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) - McLean Hospital. General information, including treatment programs for BPD.
National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (NEA-BPD). Information and resources for people with lived experience of BPD and their loved ones.
NEA-BPD Family Connections. Courses and support for loved ones of people with BPD.
Emotions Matter BPD. Support, activities, events, peer-led groups and information for people with lived experience of BPD.
New York Presbyterian BPD Resource Center. Nationwide resource and referral, including information on in-patient placements. Visit the website, call 888 649-2273 or email bpdresourcecenter@nyp.org.
McLeanhospital.org/videos and McLeanhospital.org/webinars. Free, expert videos and webinars to help with many aspects of personality disorders.
Psychology Today. Lists of therapists by location, type of therapy, specialties, availability and accepted insurances.
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). The largest national organization addressing mental illness. Support, education, advocacy. The website includes information on local chapters, groups, videos, events and a helpline.
Behavioraltech.org Help finding common treatment options, and providers nationwide with experience treating BPD and co-occuring disorders.
Alliesinrecovery.net. Specifically for loved ones of those with substance use challenges. Includes resources when a personality disorder is co-occuring. Information on joining CRAFT, Community Reinforcement and Family Training. Links to local support programs in Massachusetts. Free video modules.
Motivationandchange.com. Resources for both those with addiction challenges and their loved ones. Scientifically-supported programs and information.
“Definition of Love” - Tina Moore
From the Emotions Matter Org Art Show,
“Living on the Borderline”, 2022
Books We Like at NEPDA
Kim Gratz and Alex Chapman. The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know About Living with BPD. (New Harbinger Publications, 2007).
Kelly Koerner. Doing Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A Practical Guide. (Guilford Press, 2011). Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) was designed specifically to help people with BPD.
Jerold J Kreisman, MD, Hal Straus. I Hate You - Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality. (Tarcher Perigee, 2021).
Shari Manning. Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder: How to Keep Out-of-Control Emotions from Destroying Your Relationship. (The Guilford Press, 2011).
Blaise Aguirre, MD. Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents: What To Do When Your Teen Has BPD. (Fairwinds Press, 2014)
Blaise Aguirre, Guillian Galen. DBT for Dummies. (For Dummies, 2021). Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) was designed to help people with Borderline Personality Disorder.
Blaise Aguirre, Guillian Galen. Mindfulness for Borderline Personality Disorder: Relieve Your Suffering Using the Core Skill of Dialectical Behavior Therapy. (New Harbinger Publications, 2013).
Richard C. Schwartz, PhD. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with The Internal Family Systems Model. (Sounds True, 2021). Non-judgemental, non-stigmatizing, therapeutic way to view behavior and heal.
Kiera Van Gelder. Buddah and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating. (New Harbinger Publications, 2010).
Tara Brach. Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN. (Penguin Life, 2019).
Matthew McKay PhD, Jeffrey C. Wood PsyD, Jeffrey Brantley MD. The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation. (New Harbinger Publications, 2019).
Family Guidelines
At NEPDA, we find The Family Guidelines continue to be our baseline resource for interaction and relationship tips. 15 well-explained guidelines are included.