Stop Walking on Eggshells- Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder by Paul T. T. Mason MS
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This book is written in basic terms that anyone can understand. Even if you're not dealing with someone with Borderline Personality Disorder, maybe just someone with some of the traits, this book is a Godsend. It gives a numerous suggestions on how to deal with difficult people without escalating the situation or biting your tongue. I highly recommend it.
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Simplistic, easy to read approach
This book is a valuable read for anyone who wants to better understand the psychological diagnoses of borderline personality disorder as well as, someone who personifies a narcissistic personality disorder. This book clearly explains the symptoms of these disorders, how to live with someone with these disorders, how to set boundaries, protecting children from behaviors, and how to help the child/teen with borderline personality/narcissistic personality disorder. This book is very easy to read and includes many resources for individuals living with/affected by someone with BPD/narcissistic personality disorder. The author includes real life vignettes of individuals affected by BPD and family members which really draws the reader in.
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Stop walking on eggshells and read this book
People. They’re the worst. That saying might be a tired old cliché to some readers, but for the people this book was written for, that phrase is personal. Lord knows that iit is in my case. I first heard about Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder, in 2017 from my therapist, who explained that I did not have to exist in the whirlwind of dysfunction and anger that surrounds people close to me who suffer from mental health issues like Borderline Personality Disorder. In my case, I always think the problem is … well … me. I’m always looking for the thing that will fix the problem, make the other person happy, calm, satisfied, (Insert adjective to describe your situation here.) I am a person who stands back from life, shocked usually, wondering what on earth I did to cause these other people to react the way they do. Authors Paul T.T. Mason and Randi Kreger ask readers some poignant questions about this conundrum in their fully-revised and updated third-edition Harbinger Publication classic. “Do you feel manipulated, controlled, or lied to?” Mason and Kreger write. “Are you the focus of intense, violent, and irrational rages? Do you feel you are ‘walking on eggshells’ to avoid the next confrontation? If the answer is ‘yes,’ someone you care about may have borderline personality disorder (BPD)—a mood disorder that causes negative self-image, emotional instability, and difficulty with interpersonal relationships.” Walking on Eggshells will help you learn what you can do, reader, to extricate yourself from the continual cycle of greif and pain caused by living near a person with this mental health illness. Mason and Kreger share the industry’s latest research on comorbidity – the simultaneous presence of two or more diseases or medical conditions in a patient; which was the case in one of my situations. Walking on Eggshells provides extensive new information about narcissistic personality disorder, the effectiveness of schema therapy, and how you can use coping and communication skills to stabilize your relationships. This book is a compassionate approach to a difficult life problem that will help you set boundaries, stop relying on dangerous behaviors, make sense out of chaos, assert your own needs, defuse arguments and conflicts, and protect yourself and others from violent behaviors. One phrase people around me chanted over and over for many years actually eventually stuck with me. And finally, along with other circumstances, it prompted me to do something to improve my future. I hated it when people kindly reminded me: “You don’t have to live this way,” again and again. They all seemed so smug. But reader, it’s true. You don’t. No one is demanding you depart your situation or change your future trajectory. All those choices are yours alone. But, instead, this book seeks to educate you about what is whirring around you, and make decisions that are best for you and those you love. So, reader, if you are in this situation, please give this book a try. It sold more than a million copies in its first two editions for a reason. It can educate you. It can help. And, let me be the one to humbly – without any smugness involved – remind you now: You don’t have to live this way.
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Borderline Personality Disorder
The authors have written the third edition of this classic book on Borderline Personality Disorder. They discuss several groups, which can and do overlap: Borderline Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder (AKA sociopaths), and Histrionic Personality Disorder. They offer a helpful checklist of things to look for if you suspect someone of having one (or more) of these disorders, and ways of dealing with situations which may result.
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