How long does it take to read The Buddha and the Borderline?
Kiera Van Gelder
The Buddha and the Borderline by Kiera Van Gelder takes about 4 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 31 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2010. 246 pages, about 67,650 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is the author's chronicle of both the periods leading to her belated diagnosis and her recovery through therapy and Buddhist spirituality. Her first suicide attempt at the age of twelve marked the onset of her struggles with drug addiction, depression, post-traumatic stress, self-harm, and chaotic romantic relationships, all of which eventually led to doctors' belated diagnosis of borderline personality disorder twenty years later. Her story is a window into this mysterious and debilitating condition, an unblinking portrayal of one woman's fight against the emotional devastation of borderline personality disorder. A haunting, intimate memoir, it chronicles both the devastating period that led to her eventual diagnosis and her inspirational recovery through therapy, Buddhist spirituality, and a few online dates gone wrong. Her story sheds light on the private struggle to transform suffering into compassion for herself and others, and is essential reading for all seeking to understand what it truly means to recover and reclaim the desire to live.
Subjects: Mental health, Patients, Borderline personality disorder, Biography, Therapeutic use, Dialectical behavior therapy
