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Complex Borderline Personality Disorder: How Coexisting Conditions Affect Your BPD and How You Can Gain Emotional Balance. Available at:
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Order The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook by Dr. Fox:
In English: https://goo.gl/LQEgy1
In Spanish: https://tinyurl.com/55f8tz86
In Polish: https://tinyurl.com/npzs9f98

In this episode, we welcome back to the podcast Dr. Daniel Fox, a licensed psychologist, international speaker, and award-winning author of “The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook” and “Complex Borderline Personality Disorder: How Coexisting Conditions Affects Your BPD and How You Can Gain Emotional Balance,” and an expert in the area of personality disorders.

In this interview with Dr. Fox, we discuss how common it is for those who identify with the symptoms of BPD and those with formal diagnoses to feel like they are irreparably broken. Through an exploration of his new book and answering some questions from podcast listeners, Dan and I dive deep into the feelings of shame and guilt that come with childhood abuse and neglect that eventually lead to explosive and impulsive behaviors that often sabotage our attempts to connect with those we love in adulthood.

The goal of this episode is to help you see that you already have what it takes inside of you to begin putting the broken pieces of yourself back together and offer yourself the self-compassion and forgiveness required to start healing more meaningfully. As Dan beautifully puts it, “you’re not a horrible person; you’re a PERSON.”

💡 Questions answered and topics explored in this episode:

■ What exactly is Complex Borderline Personality disorder, and why is no one talking more about it?
■ What co-morbid conditions and symptoms most commonly occur with traits of BPD?
■ The differences between bipolar disorder and BPD
■ What is dual diagnosis? (Seeing BPD as a dual construct)
■ The difference between “depressive spirals” in BPD vs. “depressive episodes” in major depressive disorder
■ Understanding “core” and surface” contents of the human personality and how these concepts impact BPD symptoms
■ How to find the best therapist for BPD (and how to know when a mental health provider is NOT a good fit)
■ The BPD stigma that still exists in professional and academic circles
■ How to become more aware of and detach from your “family in the head” (automatic learning internalized from our attachment figures as children) to stop it from sabotaging your recovery progress
■ What feeling rejection is like in borderline personality disorder (and how to become more resilient and less dependent on the opinions of others)
■ Coping with toxic shame in borderline personality disorder (BPD / EUPD)
■ How to talk to your parents about your messed up childhood

📝Recommended resources:

■ Complex Borderline Personality Disorder (book by Dr. Daniel Fox)    • Why It's Hard to Understand Your BPD ...  
■ BPD Strategies and Techniques for Parents and Partners (YouTube video by Dr. Daniel Fox)    • BPD Strategies & Techniques for Paren...  
■ Find out more about Dr. Fox at https://drdfox.com/

Disclaimer: information contained in this podcast episode is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a licensed mental health professional.

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Daniel J. Fox, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in Texas, international speaker, and a multi-award winning author. He has published several articles in these areas and is the author of:

Complex Borderline Personality Disorder: How Coexisting Conditions Affect Your BPD and How You Can Gain Emotional Balance. Available at:
https://rb.gy/hdyqyy

Antisocial, Narcissistic, and Borderline Personality Disorders: A New Conceptualization of Development, Reinforcement, Expression, and Treatment. Available at: https://tinyurl.com/2anv8dww

The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook: An Integrative Program to Understand and Manage Your BPD. Available at: https://goo.gl/LQEgy1

Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic and Histrionic Workbook: Treatment Strategies for Cluster B Personality Disorders (IPBA Benjamin Franklin Gold Award Winner): https://goo.gl/BLRkFy

Narcissistic Personality Disorder Toolbox: 55 Practical Treatment Techniques for Clients, Their Parents & Their Children (IPBA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award Winner):: https://goo.gl/sZYhym

The Clinician’s Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders: https://goo.gl/ZAVe9v

Videos edited by Emil Christopher: [email protected]