Let Me Make it Good: A Chronicle of My Life With Borderline Personality Disorder [Paperback]

Jane Wanklin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2010

This book explores the world of a person diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder and the havoc it has wreaked on her, her family and her friends. It is an attempt to make some kind of sense of it all and to come to terms with the past and the people involved in it. Many of the patients discussed cannot speak for themselves It is an attempt to make some kind of sense of it all and to come to terms with the past and the people involved in it.

Product Details

• Paperback: 210 pages
• Publisher: Mosaic Press (January 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0889626278
• ISBN-13: 978-0889626270
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,693,925 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars somewhat misleading title, June 12, 2000

By 

Rach - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let Me Make it Good: A Chronicle of My Life With Borderline Personality Disorder (Paperback)

Hence the title, this is suppose to be a book about the author's life with Borderline Personality Disorder. Instead, some of it is about the author's life as a human being, and some of it isn't even about her. Wanklin takes time to describe a large number of mental patients she meets, most of whom are completely irrelevant. A description of Borderline Personality Disorder is not given to the reader. If I wasn't a BPD sufferer who knew the traits of the disorder like I knew the alphabet, I would have been completely lost as to what BPD even was.

A redeeming factor for me was when Wanklin DID show what it was like to live with the disorder. I found myself nodding at many parts, laughing at how familiar they sounded. I loved the probably unintentional action justifications and undertones of cynicism.

The ending made me wonder if Wanklin was "ok" like she claimed to be. She found a music group that she liked, and realized that the internet was a great place. Good? Yes. But a resolution? Not really. The ending seemed trite and hasted.

"Let Me Make it Good" shows people with the disorder that they are not alone, but other than showing us that we're not alone, it doesn't do much. I don't think this book will interest that many people. However, I DO give props to Wanklin for getting her story out, something I have always wanted to do. The self fufillment aspect must be nice.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars excellent book, poor editing job, February 18, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Let Me Make it Good: A Chronicle of My Life With Borderline Personality Disorder (Paperback)

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and would highly recommend it to anyone, regardless of their BPD diagnoses.

I would give this book five stars, if it weren't for its embarassingly high amount of typos.

Now, I'm not one to 'nitpick,' but at one point I found this so irritating that I actually had to put the book down for a minute.

For instance, in one chapter, she discusses someone named "Wayne." Then, out of nowhere, she starts calling this same person "Joe." I'm sitting here thinking, 'who the heck is Joe?' (Mind you, I am a very careful reader!) In the next chapter, she talks about a college friend named "Adam," but a sentance later, refers to him as "Allan."

There are *numerous* other mistakes of this sort that I won't bother listing. Either the author just didn't proof-read her book (*at all*!), or the editor just did a deplorable job.

I hate to harp on a book for something as trival as grammar. However, it's one thing to come across an error every now and then, and it's quite another to be bombarded with them to the point where the story starts to become *completely* ofuscated(!)

I really hope the author is aware of this.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Message From the Author, April 21, 2001

By 

Jane Wanklin (London, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let Me Make it Good: A Chronicle of My Life With Borderline Personality Disorder (Paperback)

This was not my best effort. In retrospect, I should have fictionalized it, to make it available to a wider audience, as well as asking Mosaic Press to re-edit the manuscript and then order more. It was sloppy and embarrassing and probably damaged my reputation as an author. For that, I have profound regrets.

I wrote it as a stark and unflinching look at bpd through the eyes of a sufferer and hoped that by using it as my autobiography, it might help other people afflicted with the disorder. I didn't care if the book made money--that was not my intention. This was not a publication that was in any way going to cause me to dawn the gilted trapings of the writing elite--it was my way of making something that took away more than half my life actually mean something positive for others.

I will contact my publisher, Howard Aster with regards to the somber fact that my book is nearly out of print. Perhaps the manuscript on which I am now working will resurrect my published effort.

Just in case you want to know, my second book is pure and unadulterated fiction.