3.0

The reason I'm giving this book three stars instead of four is because I felt it was a bit info-dumpy. As someone who's been diagnosed with BPD and who knows what DBT is, I feel like it could have been explained better to people who are less familiar with it without all the direct definitions and clinical talk. Even though I'm extremely interested in the topic of BPD and DBT and other therapies, my eyes glazed over whenever the author started describing these things because she did it in such a boring way. I also felt that the book ended too abruptly, without much explanation of how she actually got "better," so to speak. I get that there was Buddhism and therapy and all that, but as someone with BPD, I would like to know how those things actually helped her heal. However, the parts of the book where she talked about her life experiences were overall very interesting to read about and be able to relate to. I'm grateful that this book exists, as it can be hard to find books involving people with BPD.