{"product_id":"princes-charming-and-a-glass-sister-a-curious-memoir-61-years-of-life-with-borderline-personality-disorder-bpd-paperback","title":"Princes Charming and a Glass Sister: A Curious Memoir: 61 Years of Life with Borderline Personality Disorder (Bpd) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNaomi Oona Murthy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCousin to schizophrenia, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBorderline Personality Disorder \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e(BPD\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e) \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eaffects about 2% of the population\u003c\/em\u003e.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOur father\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e ricocheted through childhood as one of 3 siblings dropped at a Sasakatchewan, Canada orphanage in the mid-1920s. As a child, -Edgar went to farm foster homes, was adopted once, and sent back. Their father surfaced briefly, from Michigan, dying of TB -which he gave me - in 1952 or 53 and the siblings estranged each other, totally, by the early 1970s.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdgar borderlined or schizophreniaed his way\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e through a crude and lewd control freak adulthood --menacing his wife and 3 children - moving us so frequently, well - from age 5-12 I attended 13 schools and moved 18 times. He was a self-made (?) Ameri-Canadian gipsy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e- \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbused by my grade 1 teacher, I lost my age 6 year to amnesia, once she was caught. I woke up, age 7, at a different school, new town. Despite other child and adult traumas, that was my \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eonly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e dis-associative experience. My childhood was normal enough, after that, school-wise, 'til grade 7.\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e- \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eChildhood stopped at age 12. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eChased out of home at noon, Dad brutally discarded me to Children's Services the same afternoon. They moved and got a silent phone number. Four years of messing with my teenage-hood followed as he took me back and made me run away in fear all the time. Bait and switch by Dad and anxiety\/depression ruled those years. I \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003enever\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e knew where I stood with him.\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e- \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eAt age 15, 20 days shy of 16, Pierre, 21, Dad forced us into a doomed marriage. By age 20, I was divorced and re-married.\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA lot of life happened between ages 20-38. Then, happily married, \u003c\/em\u003e22 years ago, I survived a weird sexual assault, in a \u003cem\u003ework colleague, off-duty environment: by a police detective -\u003c\/em\u003e my temporary boss for a week. Curiously, other police witnessed but did not intervene. \u003cem\u003eHis, their, alcohol abuse was involved.\u003c\/em\u003e It was really stupid. No one is identified, herein, by name - only by rank.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI translate my 16 dream journal and some of their \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003euniversal symbols and themes. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eI was \u003c\/em\u003eCarl Jung and Sigmund Freud, et al, studied\/influenced and \u003cem\u003epsycho-analyst-assisted\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI have no children and am glad to not pass on damaged chromosomes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMURTHY'S LAW: \u003cem\u003eEXPECT THE UNEXPECTED\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 210\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 26, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42706044223551,"sku":"9781475945867","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/17158120dd2f168c3a4eb37aad44c4c3.webp?v=1765038985","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/princes-charming-and-a-glass-sister-a-curious-memoir-61-years-of-life-with-borderline-personality-disorder-bpd-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}