Get me out of here

Get me out of here

by: Rachel Reiland

Borderline Personality Disorder. "What the hell was that?" raged Rachel Reiland when she read the diagnosis written in her medical chart. As the 29-year old accountant, wife, and mother of young children would soon discover, it was the diagnosis that finally explained her explosive anger, manipulative behaviors, and self-destructive episodes- including bouts of anorexia, substance abuse, and sexual promiscuity.

With astonishing honesty, Reiland's memoir reveals what mental illness feels like and looks like from the inside, and how healing from such a devastating disease is possible through intensive therapy and the support of loved ones.

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My rating ****

This book opens a lot of doors to a better understanding of what exactly a Borderline Personality Disorder is. The author lets the reader in on her private life, reveals her struggles, the good, the bad and the ugly. You learn how a wife and a mother deals with a mental illness and how it can be cured. When you are reading that amazing story you feel like you are really there, like you are really going thru it. She could not have been anymore open with her struggles than in this book.

This book is mainly for people who are either suffering from this particular disorder, know somebody who does, or simply want to learn something about it. Well, there were some parts of the book that disappointed me a bit, however this is a true story so you can't expect from it the same thing as from a fiction novel.

I would definitely recommend this book. This is a very captivating autobiography that makes you laugh and cry.