Stop Walking on Eggshells, Third Edition

Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder

By: Paul T. Mason MS, Randi Kreger

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins

Publisher's summary

Do you feel manipulated, controlled, or lied to? 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.

Stop Walking on Eggshells has already helped more than a million people with friends and family members suffering from BPD understand this difficult disorder, set boundaries, and help their loved ones stop relying on dangerous BPD behaviors. This fully revised third edition has been updated with the very latest BPD research on comorbidity, extensive new information about narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), the effectiveness of schema therapy, and coping and communication skills you can use to stabilize your relationship with the BPD or NPD sufferer in your life. This compassionate guide will enable you to:

• Make sense out of the chaos
• Stand up for yourself and assert your needs
• Defuse arguments and conflicts
• Protect yourself and others from violent behavior

©2020 Paul T. Mason and Randi Kreger (P)2021 Tantor

Helpful & informative about BPD. Wish I had read this book earlier!

Its my first time hearing about BPD and this book shed light into my life and gave me understanding about circumstances that had been taking place in my family for more than 10years. Thank you for the wisdom shared that promote awareness and how to handle and help people with BPD. Highly recommend to read!

Understanding others

Much valuable information wished I had years ago explaining the reason for the rages, anger and abuse. Explaining why I am the way I am and the kind of people I attract. Knowledge is power and growth is possible.

great book

very informative I will be reading again soon. helps me see my short comings in the same areas in different ways. I believe a small amount of growth in the best ways can come from this book for anyone

I enjoyed listening to it

This was a very good way to learn all about kids with BPD. Has helped me to back off a little bit but also stay firm with what I want from my close friend.

Interesting and informative

Short and useful. I quick go to references for those who are just learning about bpd and needing something to validate their experience or for those who are curious about learning empathic and compassionate ways of dealing with your loved one who has bpd while settling healthy boundaries.

Eye opening book that made me feel heard

If you have a loved one that lashes out at you for small or confusing reasons, please give this book a read. It was eye opening to me about things I felt were off and gave me the tools to deal with them.

Learning about the condition I’ve been dealing with for 23years

Thank you there’s nothing I didn’t like there’s so much good information in this third edition I wish I had known about it along time ago that’s the only negative

Thank You!!

I have struggled miserably in the relationship with my mother ever since I grew old enough to start develop independence, she stunted it as best she could. Even now as a 35yo man she gets upset if I don't acquiesce to her every whim like I am still 2, she is extremely obviously BPD and NPD noe that I finally really know what these words mean and it is a powerful validation, to wake up finally from just how gaslit I have been.

The book makes very clear you sbould not approach them directly about your beliefs because the illness will guide their reaction. Knowing this I decided I needed to address the issue anyway for the simple reason she picks me apart and pulls out any secret I have so she would have pryed out this tooth sooner rather than later so I wanted it to happen on my terms. To your lack of response she did bot respond well, in fact she did not reapond at all. After all this time I simply seem to be dead to her.

Do bot take this as a sad story because I am so free and have wanted to escape this relationship for some time. I pray she gets well but I am not meant to be the one to fix her, I will pray and hope but I must love her from a distance for a time.

interesting

This book has helpful information for the one who is in these types of relationships.

Very Helpful

Although I'm still in a great deal of pain, gaining a better perspective on my loved ones pain and struggles as well as my responsibility in the relationships has opened the path forward and provided some direction for me. I should be an expert since I've been experiencing BPD in my life from my earliest awareness., my father, two of my brothers, my husband, and both my children - plus I've provided care for my grandmother and mother in law with Alzheimers.

I've been blaming myself and trying to fix situations and people all my life. I'm finally finding a way to release myself from blame and guilt, realizing nothing can be changed except myself, my thoughts, and my behaviors. I'm planning to reread this book often hoping to successfully navigate a way to love them all and build positive relationships without being destroyed in the process.