{"product_id":"9780615754642","title":"Casey: Don't Ever Call Me Worthless","description":"Casey is the inspiration of this autobiographical tale. A love story involving a person with Borderline Personality Disorder (or BPD). Ordinary people living extraordinary lives. A strong family support group is needed to care for people with serious mental illnesses. This story is a true romance story which includes a tale of family and difficult life choices. For those of you unaware about Borderline Personality Disorder it is diagnosed by five of the nine prerequisites from the DSM-IV-TR. BPD is manifested by a pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts including 1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. 2. A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation. This is called \"splitting\" 3. Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self. 4. Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating). \u003cbr\u003e5. Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior. 6. Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days). 7. Chronic feelings of emptiness. 8. Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights). 9. Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms.\u003cp\u003eCasey had all nine. Without knowing it their love would begin to heal thirty years of abuse and neglect.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Casey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50075752694000,"sku":"9780615754642","price":10.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780615754642_p0.jpg?v=1784732003","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780615754642","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}