The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook: An Integrative Program to Understand and Manage Your BPD

The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook: An Integrative Program to Understand and Manage Your BPD is one of those self-help guides that actually balances education with actionable tools. It doesn’t just tell you what BPD is—it walks you through how it shows up in thinking, emotions, and relationships, and gives you grounded exercises to work with those patterns. Therapists and clients alike recommend this type of workbook because it’s structured without being dry, and supportive without sugarcoating the challenges of BPD.

This workbook is a fantastic resource for anyone with BPD or even just someone dealing with a few BPD symptoms they’d like to work on. It’s organized into several helpful sections and includes engaging stories and thought-provoking questions that can really help you better understand your symptoms, thought patterns, and behaviors, and how to make positive changes. I use this workbook together with my BPD card deck, and I've already seen some progress! It’s definitely worth the money, and I highly recommend it!

This workbook is the best therapist I have had in my life. The workbook helps you understand your BPD or BPD traits diagnoses.

Learning to live with a mental health issue using this book.

Bought this book for a family member and he said it was very informative and extremely useful.

First, thank you Dr. Fox. You have helped me work with my therapy team to find a diagnosis that fits because watching your videos on YouTube encouraged me to be honest with myself and my doctors without fear of stigma and failure. Your compassion and belief that people with BPD/people on the BPD spectrum can seek treatment to effectively work toward remission and reduction in symptoms felt singular when researching BPD. Now for my fellow BPD'ers/potential BPD'ers/BPD Spectrum folks out there: This workbook SUCKS. It's also the best thing that has happened to my therapy journey. Anytime you want to put this book down, it's like Dr. Fox sees the future - there is almost always a moment when I want to chuck it across the room and then there's a sentence that reads, "I know you want to chuck this book across the room right now. Changing thoughts is HARD, but you've got this." Or "You did a hard thing, you should definitely eat a piece of cheesecake." I'm paraphrasing, but it is UNCANNY that he knows when you're going to start ramping up and puts a word of encouragement in the chapter. Like, guys, THIS WORKBOOK WILL NOT ABANDON YOU AND WILL ENCOURAGE YOU TO EAT CAKE. This book will also make you feel ALL KINDS OF WAYS. It'll make you write down stuff that is HARD and EMBARRASSING and FRUSTRATING. It might trigger an episode. It might trigger five episodes. Dr. Fox legit knows this, because therapy is HARD. There are breaks built into the book and he repeatedly reassures you that you are totally, completely, 100% okay to put the book down and walk away and use a coping strategy and come back when you're ready. But, here's the rub: If you keep doing the work, especially if you're taking it to therapy with you, you read back the stuff you wrote down that was hard and embarrassing and frustrating and you start gaining CLARITY and INSIGHT and TOOLS to manage your emotions. As you learn more about yourself, you gain knowledge and skills to challenge false beliefs, recognize triggers, categorize feelings and relationships, and build strategies that will legit set a course for better days with fewer episodes. Those moments of recognition and discovery are called "breakthroughs" I guess, but they legit feel like a veil lifting and it's squirrely feeling knowing that our brains are super great at hiding things about ourselves as a protective mechanism. I'm not 100% better. I'm not even 100% done with my workbook, but I feel like I now have the words and the homework to effectively communicate with my therapist. That is priceless. Buy the book. Watch Dr. Fox's YouTube channel. p.s. I haven't devalued this book and I've been using it for four months. ;)

Very good book! It's very informative and helpful. Give it a read!

Love this book very helpful for Journaling and helping you with understanding your emotions.

I absolutely love it. It is perfect because I was recently diagnosed with BPD and this book has exercises that help you understand BPD. It's a great tool to use along with therapy.

helpful and fun to do ; full of information and tools, easy to use

The book is not helpful for me, unlike other books I read to this topic

if you’re struggling with a fresh diagnosis, i would 10000% recommend this book. it helped me in my darkest chapter. it helped me figure out more about my diagnosis and really helped to understand myself much better

I know many of you will want to see examples of some of the exercises in this book, and there are MANY. I’m about a quarter of the way through it now and I find it to be very well written and easy to digest. One thing I would recommend is giving yourself time to reflect after each chapter and the accompanying exercises. It can be a lot to take in and you will have many “aha” moments as the exercises in this book help you connect the dots between your present and past behaviors to the way you process your emotions. This can be overwhelming at times but will also leave you feeling at peace as you gain a new understanding and empathy for yourself and your actions. A word of caution: You should only buy this book and complete the exercises inside if you’re willing to be brutally honest with yourself and view your behaviors from a completely objective standpoint. You won’t get much out of this if you try to fool yourself into denying that you have negative behavioral patterns OR beat yourself up for not being perfect. Have some compassion for yourself and try to enjoy discovering patterns in your thinking and behaviors.