Thank you for your interest in my book “Watching Myself be Borderline”
Watching Myself Be Borderline tells the story of little Jansen Vee growing up in a family created by two parents who were narcissists.
This author, Jansen, has an amazing ability to explain the family dynamics that created a troubled child and, later, a mentally ill adult.
Always insightful and sometimes heartbreaking, the stories of Jansen's childhood illuminate her adult life as a sufferer of borderline personality disorder, as she explains how each of the characteristics of the disorder listed in the DSM are or are not reflected in her life:
1. abandonment fears; 2. unstable, intense relationships; 3. unstable sense of self; 4. impulsivity; 5. suicidality, self-mutilation; 6. emotional instability; 7. emptiness; 8. anger; 9. transient paranoia.
Her struggles have been so challenging that her survival has not been assured. And yet, she also tells us about her peculiar strengths—those strengths which have allowed her to reach the age of sixty years old and still be alive, unlike many sufferers of borderline personality disorder.
Watching Myself Be Borderline: A Smart Sufferer Says How It Started and How She Survives
Watching Myself Be Borderline: A Smart Sufferer Says How It Started and How She Survives tells the story of how borderline personality disorder was induced in author Jansen Vee, how Vee has grown over forty-five years of psychotherapy, and how her strengths and gifts have allowed her to survive.
Watching Myself Be Borderline is not an advice book. It’s a rare first-person account and analysis by a sufferer of borderline personality disorder about her experience. Perfect for readers who themselves have borderline personality disorder or for therapists or for those whose loved ones working are sufferers, Vee’s story shows that a person can be intelligent and successful and also mentally ill.
Through her book, Vee hopes that other high-functioning people with mental illness will feel empowered to get appropriate help and recognize that mental illness does not equal brokenness.