Book Review: Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder by Rachel Reiland

Title: Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder 

(used to be known as I'm Not Supposed to Be Here by Eggshell Press)

Author: Rachel Reiland 

Publisher: Hazelden, 2004

Genre: Memoir, Psychology 

Ratings: 9/10 

Summary:

A lifeline if you suffer from borderline personality disorder; A godsend for your loved ones.  

Borderline personality disorder. "What in the hell was that?" raged Rachel Reiland after discovering the term on her discharge papers from the hospital psychiatric ward. As the twenty-nine-year-old accountant, wife and mother of young children would coon learn, borderline personality disorder (BPD) was the diagnosis that finally explained her explosive anger, manipulative behaviors, and self-destructive bent, including devastating episodes of substance abuse, anorexia, and sexual promiscuity. 

With astonishing honesty, Reiland reveals what mental illness feel like and looks like from the inside. Her story is horrifying, but in the end hopeful - offering living proof that healing from the tenacious psychiatric disorder is possible through intensive therapy and the support of loved ones.  

Summary:

Frankly, to start I would like to say; this might be the best book I've read in months. 

Scoping through the reality of phsyco-therapy and analysis, Get Me Out Of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder is a story about Rachel Reiland, of course a pseudonym explains about how everything points out her behavior from reluctance. Often abused as a child and prosmicuous in her late-teens, Rachel finally finds help in her early thirties - before she ends up taking her own life and damaging her own well-built family and finally recovering as a definite, even flawed person. 

I have always known borderline personality from the movie, Girl, Interrupted to find how far along and down-right different than what reality is. How Rachel suffered in her life, trying to get it back together was brutal and focused. She had to overcome obstacles, to understand that she does not take shortcuts and every path might be so harsh. This book might have been filled with harsh and curse words, but it is perfectly written with class - totally honest; black and white. 

I have always been interested in psychology. And this book depicts what I needed to know on how borderline personality is like. Nothing is like the movies, my whole life is a lie. 

lol. 

Well this book deserved it's ratings. Compact and even complex, Rachel Reiland's Get Me Out of Here is a must-read. 

Film Review: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Title: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit 

Language: English 

Running time: 1 hr 45 m 

Genre: Drama, Action & Adventure. Thriller & Suspense

Directed by: Kenneth Branagh 

Distributed by: Paramount Pictures 

Ratings: 8/10 

Summary:

Based on the character created by bestselling author Tom Clancy, "Jack Ryan" is a global action thriller set in present day. This original story follow a young Jack as he uncovers a financial terrorist plot. The story follows him from 9/11, through tour duty in Afghanistan, which scarred him forever, and into his early days in the Financial Intelligence Unit of the modern CIA where he becomes an analyst, under the guardianship of his handler, Harper. When Ryan believes he's uncovered a Russian plot to collapse the United States economy, he goes from being an analyst to becoming a spy and must fight to save his own life and those of countless others, while also trying to protect the thing that's more important to him that anything, his relationship with his fiancee, Cathy. 

Review:

A refreshing new tale that does not concern any terrorist attack that is issued by the self-bombing of Muslims, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is a breath of fresh air from all the lame and tiring, recycling movies done by Hollywood. Excellent casts and a thrilling plot, you wouldn't want to miss this film. 

It starts with Jack Ryan, injured in a helicopter crash by saving his teammates land him in recovery for eight months. Talent with brains, landed him in a career in finance and stock-broking. After discovering a hitch in the market, he flies himself to Moscow, Russia to find out about the little hitch - finding himself in deep trouble after someone's trial error on killing him. 

Okay, let's get to business. Most people who would have found this movie boring and unsettling is because they don't fully understand what's the main point of this film. And first, they don't understand what an "financial analyst" is and does not understand what Jack Ryan does as a whole. But par from my own analysis, I find this action thriller out of the standard CIA-government-working-type-of-film, but a fresh and new, out-of-the-oven type of movie that you surely would enjoy. What I know is, I have. 

So, a five star quality type of movie and is sure to entertain those action-film junkies. 

Book Review: Koyak by Syaihan Syafiq

Title: Koyak 

Author: Syaihan Syafiq 

Publisher: Fixi 

Language: Malay 

Ratings: 6.5/10 

Summary:

A year later has gone and a lot of things has changed. 

Mikael knows he's sick, and he wants to get better. He is isolated and treated by Dr. Iesmawi. Slowly, Mikael does not remember the friends he had known. His mind feels torn, one by one. 

Julia and Shah just wants to forget the nightmare that has gone past and turn over a new leaf. From the help of Fairudz, they found peace in Labuan. 

There would be a person who has an even bigger torn soul, and wants to finish what has not ended. S/he wanted to hunt someone. For something that has not yet been concluded, s/he would do anything to track Julia, Shah and of course Mikael - even if there would be bloodshed. 

Review:

I would like to say kudos for the writer on the second book, KOYAK. It might not seem to some people how hard it is to write a book, good or not. Let alone a second book, that would be suicide. Okay let's get to the point. 

Syaihan Syafiq's Koyak is a little bit dark, far from humorous. Basically there is no basic plot, putting pressure on different character's monologues. It is shown that this book is about Mikael, the psycho that supposedly tried to kill all his friends with the alter ego that he made, "Nazzman". 

To me, for readers my age would have thought that it would be okay to write dark stories. I think I don't really have any deep feelings about this book because maybe, just maybe it does not imprint much on me. It is a little bit confusing, and you really need to focus to eventually understand this book. 

As a conclusion, I prefer Bisik, because it actually is revolved around the main character, and I would have wanted to seen more Mikael in Koyak.